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
daniel.jarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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?
~ Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hitt [mailto:rbh00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 6:17 PM
To: redhat-s390-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Installing taroon under VM
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 rbh00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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