Hello! I missed that clue! Well that's a first. It seems reading a machine log for the big guy is a special talent. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right the kernel appears to be different. > From the working system: > Linux version 2.6.32-431.66.1.el6.s390x ( > mockbu...@s390-002.build.bos.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red > Hat 4.4.7-4) (GCC > ) ) #1 SMP Fri Oct 2 13:20:16 EDT > 2015 > > setup: Linux is running as a z/VM guest operating system in 64-bit mode > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:46 AM, R P Herrold <herr...@owlriver.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Alan Altmark wrote: >> >> > On Wednesday, 12/16/2015 at 02:48 GMT, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> > > Now the registered machine fails to boot, the other one works fine. >> > >> > A gamma ray collided with a 1 and knocked it over, turning it into a 0. >> > That's the only explanation I can think of. I used to think it was >> > sunspots or coronal mass ejections, but I've moved on. >> >> Assumedly the non-registered machine is still running the >> older kernel (please check which kernals are installed thus: >> rpm -qa kernel\* >> ) >> >> As such mkinitrd (which seems to be failing, perhaps due for a >> improperly specified path to an initrd, was in play (per the >> earlier message quoted) >> >> I have found 'grub2' and grubby, to be quite sensitive to the >> configuration file it is handed. There are 'order issues' on >> what needs to appear before and after other items, not well >> documented. From my notes: >> >> The following will generate the correct grub.cfg file >> ( /boot/grub2/ is RHEL / ClefOS 7 and later ... ) >> >> cd /boot/grub2/ >> mv grub.cfg grub.cfg-BAK >> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg >> >> but sadly the 'fix' does not persist when a new kernel is >> installed. not sure why as I have been off solving other >> issues >> >> -- Russ herrold >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/
