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
> >
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