Successfully installed it last week. Key for me was root=live:nfs://... The live was the important bit.
-------- Original message -------- From: Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> Date:2014/09/16 15:42 (GMT-05:00) To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Cc: Subject: [LINUX-390] Installing RHEL 7 Hello list, 1) Has anyone been able to install RHEL 7 on z? 2) Is there any documentation specific to System z? I was able to download the two ISO images from rhn.redhat.com. I did not see any documentation on the Web nor on the mounted ISO (perhaps I'm missing it). I tried the following steps, but got errors similar to what others have reported in this forum: Thanks. -Mike M. -) Mount ISO image on an NFS server and export it -) Copy kernel and RAMdisk from images/ directory to CMS disk -) Update parmfile in the images/ directory with new first line: # cat generic.prm ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!condev -) Log on to Linux virtual machine -) DEF STOR 1G -) IPL CMS -) run the RHEL7 EXEC - system starts booting: ... 7.280120 systemd-udevd: renamed network interface eth0 to enccw0.0.0600 ... *really, systemd, I will miss the old sysVinit ... (sniff, sniff :))really, enccw0.0.0600 is better than eth0? (not a good start systemd :))* ... OK Mounted Configuration File System. OK Reached target System Initialization. OK Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. OK Reached target Paths. OK Reached target Basic System. ... *install stops here for a couple of minutes, then:* ... dracut-initqueueÝ706¨: Warning: Could not boot. OK Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen. OK Reached target Paths. OK Reached target Basic System. dracut-initqueue: Warning: Could not boot. dracut-initqueue: Warning: /dev/root does not exist ... generating /run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/