RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-16 Thread Kevin Kwan (Personal)
Okay, looks like there are more developments to this -> -Original Message- From: Christian Borntraeger [mailto:borntrae...@de.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 7:37 AM To: kkwan@gmail.com; debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: specifying virtio block device as r

Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-16 Thread Christian Borntraeger
mail.com; debian-s390@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian > S390X install? > > On 11/04/2015 10:52 PM, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: >> Okay, I think I figured out the gist of the problem - > > >> This

Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-13 Thread Christian Borntraeger
w would I specify the proper type for zipl? > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Philipp Kern [mailto:pk...@debian.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 3:22 AM > To: kkwan@gmail.com > Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org >

RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-04 Thread Kevin Kwan (Personal)
...@debian.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 3:22 AM To: kkwan@gmail.com Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install? On 2015-11-04 05:23, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: > If I use the CCW version: > > qe

RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-04 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2015-11-04 05:23, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: If I use the CCW version: qemu-system-s390x.exe -machine type=s390-ccw-virtio-2.5 -m 512 -hda linux.disk -device virtio-net-ccw,netdev=net0 -netdev user,id=net0 -k en-us -redir tcp:9022::22 I just use -nographic on Linux and it does the

RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-03 Thread Kevin Kwan (Personal)
- From: Philipp Kern [mailto:pk...@debian.org] Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 1:20 PM To: Kevin Kwan (Personal) Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install? On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 10:46:39AM -0500, Kevin Kwan (Personal

RE: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-02 Thread Kevin Kwan (Personal)
Philipp: Thanks for the reply - it turns out that since I was running the Debian 9/stretch kernel/initrd, it was not loading the ext3/4 modules due to missing modules. This is likely the reason why partman failed to give me an option to make the filesystem. I had to boot the machine up on the

Re: specifying virtio block device as root filesystem for Debian S390X install?

2015-11-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 10:46:39AM -0500, Kevin Kwan (Personal) wrote: > it turns out that since I was running the Debian 9/stretch kernel/initrd, it > was not loading the ext3/4 modules due to missing modules. This is likely > the reason why partman failed to give me an option to make the