Mark, I've been using the installer, so I don't get to see the underlying config files. I'll try it again and see if I can get to /etc/zipl.conf. The installer doesn't say why it can't write out ZIPL, just that it cannot. I tried partitioning /boot and formatting it ext2 (which is the way we do SLES12), then partitioning the rest of the volume as /. It doesn't seem to like that either.
It is at least comforting to know I'm not the only one who has run into this issue. Martha On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:25:05 -0600 Mark Post said: >>>> On 4/11/2016 at 07:00 PM, Martha McConaghy <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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/
