Re: Installing taroon under VM

Hi, Daniel

No, that was my problem.  I blinkeredly assumed that the RELEASE-NOTES 
description of the parameters was complete.  Domingo Cardenas clued me 
in, and my dasd works just fine now.  Thanks.

Richard

[email protected] wrote:

>Out of curiousity, what does your DASD parm look like in redhat.prm (or
>whatever you called the second file you punched)?  Do you have one?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Hitt [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:17 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [Redhat-s390-list] Installing taroon under VM
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>>Hi, All
>>
>>I'm attempting to try out the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
>>release 2.9.5AS 
>>(taroon) by installing it under VM/ESA.  The odd thing is 
>>that the Disk 
>>Druid (and the Autopartition method as well) comes up with 
>>/dev/dasdr as 
>>the disk to use, not /dev/dasda as I had hoped.
>>
>>In trying to track this problem down I did "cat 
>>/proc/dasd/devices" and 
>>saw that all my
>>devices, dasd and non-dasd, were listed (see below).    
>>Perhaps this is 
>>a known bug in the
>>dasd driver?
>>
>>A separate annoying problem is that the disk my sysadmin 
>>assigned me was 
>>not virgin but
>>had a copy of our UTS operating system on it.  Using that disk led to 
>>the problem that anaconda
>>could find no dasd at all to use for the install.  I solved 
>>that problem 
>>by using the DDR program under CMS to copy a Linux CDR disk 
>>image onto 
>>the assigned disk.
>>
>>Perhaps there's no way around these installation problems 
>>other than for 
>>anaconda to present
>>the installer with a list of dasd and let the installer 
>>choose which one 
>>anaconda should use.
>>I suspect this could get to be a nontrivial operation, 
>>because I expect 
>>anaconda is somehow "testing" what's on each disk, and it 
>>should exhibit 
>>how it categorizes the disks at the time it asks which to 
>>use.  But this 
>>is pretty important stuff, and a fix for this Beta version of Red Hat 
>>Enterprise Linux for S/390 is needed with highest priority, I believe.
>>
>>I've received scant to no mail lately on this mailing-list.  Is there 
>>another venue that is being
>>used for discussion of Red Hat on S/390?  Should I be sending 
>>email like 
>>this to another list?
>>
>>Richard Hitt   [email protected]
>>
>>
>>Output of cat /proc/dasd/devices:
>>[root@myself00 lib]# cat /proc/dasd/devices
>>0009(none) at ( 94:  0) is dasda      : unknown
>>000c(none) at ( 94:  4) is dasdb      : unknown
>>000d(none) at ( 94:  8) is dasdc      : unknown
>>000e(none) at ( 94: 12) is dasdd      : unknown
>>0190(ECKD) at ( 94: 16) is dasde      : active at blocksize: 
>>4096, 19260 
>>blocks, 75 MB
>>019d(ECKD) at ( 94: 20) is dasdf      : active at blocksize: 
>>1024, 50490 
>>blocks, 49 MB
>>019e(ECKD) at ( 94: 24) is dasdg      : active at blocksize: 
>>4096, 31500 
>>blocks, 123 MB
>>0191(ECKD) at ( 94: 28) is dasdh      : active at blocksize: 
>>4096, 1260 
>>blocks,
>>4 MB
>>0620(none) at ( 94: 32) is dasdi      : unknown
>>0621(none) at ( 94: 36) is dasdj      : unknown
>>0622(none) at ( 94: 40) is dasdk      : unknown
>>0623(none) at ( 94: 44) is dasdl      : unknown
>>0120(none) at ( 94: 48) is dasdm      : unknown
>>33b8(none) at ( 94: 52) is dasdn      : unknown
>>33b9(none) at ( 94: 56) is dasdo      : unknown
>>0121(none) at ( 94: 60) is dasdp      : unknown
>>0141(ECKD) at ( 94: 64) is dasdq      : active at blocksize: 
>>4096, 36000 
>>blocks, 140 MB
>>0140(ECKD) at ( 94: 68) is dasdr      : active at blocksize: 4096, 
>>601020 blocks, 2347 MB
>>0190(none) at ( 94: 72) is dasds      : unknown
>>019d(none) at ( 94: 76) is dasdt      : unknown
>>019e(none) at ( 94: 80) is dasdu      : unknown
>>0191(none) at ( 94: 84) is dasdv      : unknown
>>0141(none) at ( 94: 88) is dasdw      : unknown
>>0140(none) at ( 94: 92) is dasdx      : unknown
>>[root@myself00 lib]#
>>
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