Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-28 Thread Johan Schelling
Ok, thanks for the info Christian ….. In the mean time I downloaded a new Ubuntu 16.04 s390x ISO file from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/ I did a clean install using this ISO file and everything installed quickly and the IPL ran OK. So I am able to continue ….. Kind regard

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-27 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi Johan, thanks for your offer to help! Fortunately the root cause is already identified as a bug in zipl (package s390-tools). If it triggers depends a lot on sizes/offsets - due to that it was there a long time undetected - theoretically you could have run into it before or even with other dist

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-27 Thread Johan Schelling
Hello everyone, At ICU we have recently bought a LinuxONE Rockhopper (used in combination with V7000 so no ECKD) and we are running both zVM and zKVM. I have been experimenting with both SUSE (SLES11SP4 / SLES12), Fedora (23) and Ubuntu (16.04 beta) releases and they all seem to work fine.

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-26 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Rick, > We desperately need a one-shot, something that will just do it without so many moving parts ... The UBUISO EXEC in "The Ubuntu Mainframe Cookbook" creates a TDISK, copies the kernel, parmfile and RAMdisk from an install server and punches them to the reader from there. So no 191 disk is n

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-25 Thread Rick Troth
On 06/15/2016 07:12 AM, Terry Madge wrote: > My colleague has been attempting to install Ubuntu under z/VM and has created > the 4 files required to IPL under z/VM CMS for the first time; > > INITRD > KERNEL > PARMFILE > UBUNTU EXEC > > ... We interrupt this regularly scheduled thread to solicit

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-22 Thread Stefan Haberland
Am 16.06.2016 um 13:05 schrieb Terry Madge: Hi Stefan, Any feedback you can give would be great. Thanks Terry Hi Terry, after some debugging I found a bug in the FBA loader that seems to occur randomly. But in fact it depends on the size of the the kernel image and/or some offsets within it.

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-16 Thread Terry Madge
Hi Stefan, Any feedback you can give would be great. Thanks Terry -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Haberland Sent: 16 June 2016 10:19 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-16 Thread Stefan Haberland
Am 15.06.2016 um 19:59 schrieb Alan Altmark: On Wednesday, 06/15/2016 at 03:11 GMT, Terry Madge wrote: -> 2590 SSCHB2339000FF20 CC 0 SCH DEV 0100

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 06/15/2016 at 03:11 GMT, Terry Madge wrote: > > -> 2590 SSCHB2339000FF20 CC 0 >SCH DEV 0100 >CPA 8410 PARM KEY 0

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Terry Madge
: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem Bizarre. How does a device go from active to not operational? No messages on the z/VM operator log? On 6/15/16, 11:03 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Terry Madge" wrote: > -> 2590

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
Bizarre. How does a device go from active to not operational? No messages on the z/VM operator log? On 6/15/16, 11:03 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Terry Madge" wrote: > -> 2590 SSCHB2339000FF20 CC 0 >SCH DEV 0100 >CPA 0

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Terry Madge
2590 SSCHB2339000FF20 CC 3 SCH DEV 0100 HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 0002 8000 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: 15 June 2016 15:0

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
#CP TR SSCH RUN #CP IPL Let’s see on which sub channel it’s trying to start an I/O. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or vis

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Terry Madge
0702 QDIO-ELIGIBLE QIOASSIST-ELIGIBLE -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Neale Ferguson Sent: 15 June 2016 14:13 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem What does #CP Q V ALL report

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Neale Ferguson
What does #CP Q V ALL report? On 6/15/16, 7:12 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Terry Madge" wrote: >Start subchannel failed >HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 0002 8000 >4502 > >Any help is much appreciated. ---

Re: Ubuntu under z/VM Installation / IPL problem

2016-06-15 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Terry, See: https://sites.google.com/site/mike99mac/UbuntuMainframeCookbook.pdf -Mike M On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Terry Madge wrote: > My colleague has been attempting to install Ubuntu under z/VM and has > created the 4 files required to IPL under z/VM CMS for the first time; > > I