Yes, about 2-3 months ago. Problems with !condev and also number of disks and custom partioining. When we tried with kickstart file we could however set our own disk setup without problem. There is z specific info included in the Install manual.
/Tore -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael MacIsaac Sent: den 16 september 2014 9:42 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 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/
