Neale, Felipe, Thanks for the quick replies. I got to the documentation on the Web and will bookmark it.
In section 14.1 "Customizing generic.prm", I don't see anything about live:nfs://, nor root= (maybe I'm missing it). In section 14.2 "Considerations for Hard Drive Installation on IBM System z" I read: "If you wish to boot the installation program from a hard drive, you can optionally install the zipl boot loader on the same (or a different) disk..." He he - perhaps this was copied from the Intel book? (sorry, couldn't resist :)) So I followed Neale's hint and tried adding a line to the parm file: root=live:nfs://myserver/srv/nfs/rhel7/dvd1 where the dvd1 directory is mounted loopback. Then after the "Reached target Basic System." message it only waits a few seconds, so it seems to be communicating with the NFS server. But now it fails with: ... 33.492098¨ FS-Cache: Loaded 33.500256¨ FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching 33.504518¨ Key type dns_resolver registered 33.511157¨ NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type 33.511167¨ Key type id_resolver registered 33.511170¨ Key type id_legacy registered 33.542071¨ dracut: FATAL: failed to download live image: error 1 33.542091¨ dracut: Refusing to continue ... I tried again with the line whereby the install program does the NFS mount: root=live:nfs://myserver/srv/nfs/rhel7/rhel-server-7.0-s390x-dvd.iso But got the same error. Both directories /srv/nfs/rhel7/ and /srv/nfs/rhel7/dvd1 are NFS exported on 'myserver'. Any help will be appreciated. -Mike M On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Filipe Miranda <fmira...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello Mike, > > Here is the documentation for RHEL on z: > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/part-installation-system-z.html > > Let me know if you have any questions, > > > Kind Regards, > > Filipe Miranda > > > On Sep 16, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/