Martha, When you start the installation from DVD, you should see a prompt early at the beginning of the installation asking for additional parameters. That's the time to enter the path to your installation repository and network configuration parameters. More information and examples can be found at the following URL:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/Installation_Guide/chap-installer-booting-ipl-s390.html#sect-customizing-generic-prm-s390 Note that this prompt is not available in RHEL-7.0, you need RHEL-7.1 DVD or later. Regards, Jan On 09/15/2015 09:38 PM, Martha McConaghy wrote:
We've got some folks from outside the school working on a project in our lab. They want to do an RHEL 7 LPAR install, but are running into problems. I've never done a Linux install in an LPAR, always using virtual machines. So, I can't really advise them. They want to be able to boot the starter system off the HMC's DVD and then do the install from a system holding the ISO images (either FTP or NFS). They have been able to boot the starter system into the LPAR. However, it falls into the dreaded safe mode because it cannot find /dev/root. I had this trouble when I was doing a practice install in a virtual machine and found that I had a typo in my REDHAT PRM file. However, in this case, they don't have a customized PRM file at all. They just have a bootable DVD. So, is there a way to do this? Build a RHEL 7 install DVD that just boots into the LPAR and is already customized to do the install? Please pardon me if that sounds like an ignorant question. I've looked for any redbooks that might cover this, but wasn't able to find any and these guys won't do any research on their own....sigh.... Martha ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
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