Install it on VM and then DDR the mdisks to the packs the LPAR will use. -- R; <><
On Sep 16, 2015 7:05 AM, "Jan Stodola" <jstod...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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/ >> > > > -- > Jan Stodola > Quality Assurance Engineer > > Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic > Email: jstod...@redhat.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
