If Jessie's installer doesn't accept it, then why is it provided as an option? Seriously, it makes no sense.
Martha On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:29:58 +0200 Viktor Mihajlovski said: >On 12.04.2016 01:11, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 12 April 2016 at 00:00, 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. >>> 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. >>> >>> The timestamp on the install files I'm using is April 2, so they are pretty >>> new. The level of Debian is jessie. >>> >> >> I recommend to try testing aka stretch. There were LVM fixes uploaded >> there. As usual do attach /var/log/syslog from the d-i to help >> debugging what's going wrong. >That is exactly the point, Debian Jessie's installer only accepts the >root device on a DASD partition. With Stretch, root can be anywhere >including LVM volumes. >> >> Note there is also Debian specific mailing debian-s390: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-s390/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Dimitri. >> >[...] >-- > >Mit freundlichen GrüÃen/Kind Regards > Viktor Mihajlovski > >IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH >Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Köderitz >Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp >Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen >Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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/
