>>> On 4/11/2016 at 07:00 PM, Martha McConaghy <u...@vm.marist.edu> wrote: > I've been fighting with a Debian install all day and wonder if anyone else > has run into the same problem. I wanted to use LVM for the root filesystem, > so created a /boot partition and an LVM for the rest. Everything works fine > until it comes to the step where it tries to write out ZIPL. That step > fails.
By "that step" do you mean something the installer is doing that you can't tell exactly what is happening? Or is it a command you're running yourself? > I tried all sorts of combinations, but the only that actually works is > creating 1 partition for / with no LVM at all. Something is not right. While I don't personally care for this kind of setup, it should be fairly straightforward. /boot needs to be mounted at the time zipl is run. It needs to have a file system of ext*, xfs, reiserfs, etc. on it, not something like btrfs. What do the contents of /etc/zipl.conf look like? What are the messages you're getting back that indicate failure? Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
