Hi Ihno, I have already done this. I have set to 1G, 2G, 3G, and 20G and still get the same error.
Terry martin - Contractor Cell - 443 854-2452 Office (NCC) - 410 965-8682 Email - terry.mar...@ssa.gov -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ihno Krumreich Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 11:23 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time Hi Terry, can you please try the installation with only 2 Gbyte and set the memory to 20G after the installation. Regards Ihno On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:55:33PM +0000, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: > Alan, > > If the theory is that the INITRD file is somehow corrupted and say the source > (ISO) is ok could it be that it is getting messed up when transferring to our > workstation first and then loading it from there to the z/Linux guest? > > If so can I take it directly from the HTTP server where the source files sit > to the z/Linux guest skipping the load down to the workstation? If so what is > the best way to do this? I can put the HTTP URL in the parmfile? > > Thanks Alan! > > Terry martin - Contractor > Cell - 443 854-2452 > Office (NCC) - 410 965-8682 > Email - terry.mar...@ssa.gov > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > Alan Altmark > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 10:33 AM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: Re: Error when load z/Linux for first time > > On Monday, 08/25/2014 at 10:21 EDT, "Martin, Terry Contractor" > <terry.mar...@ssa.gov> wrote: > > Could the INITRD corrupted at the ISO level ? Or is it the Kernel > > Image > that is > > the problem? We have been concentrating on the INITRD file up to > > this > point. > > It isn't the kernel since you can't see the kernel running. As I said > previously, I think the ramdisk (INITRD) is corrupted. Note the "incomplete > write". Whether is was corrupted on upload to VM, to your workstation, or at > the source is TBD. If it were at the source, then everyone would have the > same issue. > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and > Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Ihno Krumreich "Never trust a computer you can lift." -- Ihno Krumreich i...@suse.de Projectmanager S/390 & zSeries Maxfeldstr. 5 +49-911-74053-439 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/