The installation finished badly: sh-2.05# /usr/sbin/authconfig --kickstart --nostart --enableshadow --enablemd5 /usr/sbin/authconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory sh-2.05# # Allow root logins over 3270 sh-2.05# echo "console" >> /etc/securetty sh-2.05# # Options for kernel network drivers. sh-2.05# if [ -n "" ]; then > echo "options ctc " >> /etc/modules.conf > fi sh-2.05# if [ -n "" ]; then > echo "alias ctc0 lcs" >> /etc/modules.conf > echo "options lcs " >> /etc/modules.conf > fi sh-2.05# if [ -n "" ]; then > echo "alias eth0 qeth" >> /etc/modules.conf > echo "options qeth " >> /etc/modules.conf > fi sh-2.05# if [ -n "" ]; then > echo "alias ctc0 netiucv" >> /etc/modules.conf > echo "options netiucv " >> /etc/modules.conf > fi sh-2.05# [ -n "" ] && /usr/sbin/timeconfig sh-2.05# exit Please set your root password now: chroot: cannot execute passwd: No such file or directory Congratulations, you have sucessfully installed Red Hat Linux on S390! Now IPL from your dasd to start it. I'm not sure if the problems were a result of the "read manifest failed" messages or not. Then, the IPL was pretty disastrous: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 1k freed modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 INIT: version 2.78 booting Welcome to Red Hat Linux Mounting proc filesystem: [ OK ] Configuring kernel parameters: execvp: No such file or directory [FAILED] System date: Tue Aug 7 11:14:05 EDT 2001 [ OK ] Activating swap partitions: [ OK ] Setting hostname linux.sys.eds.com: [ OK ] Checking root filesystem /: clean, 12446/126080 files, 45335/125997 blocks [/sbin/fsck.ext2 -- /] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/dasda1 [ OK ] Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] Enabling swap space: [ OK ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Entering non-interactive startup Setting network parameters: execvp: No such file or directory [FAILED] Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ] Bringing up interface ctc0: [ OK ] Starting system logger: [ OK ] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] Starting NFS file locking services: Starting NFS statd: [ OK ] Initializing random number generator: [ OK ] Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ] Starting automount:[ OK ] Starting xinetd: [ OK ] Starting sendmail: makemap: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.2: c annot open shared object file: No such file or directory makemap: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.2: cannot open shared o bject file: No such file or directory makemap: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.2: cannot open shared o bject file: No such file or directory makemap: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.2: cannot open shared o bject file: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.2: cannot op en shared object file: No such file or directory [FAILED] Then trying to login was just as bad: login: root root /bin/login: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot open share d object file: No such file or directory login: Mark Post