Fedora Images

Wed Sep 7 23:06:48 UTC 2011

> Phil P wrote:

> So I pulled the latest Source code snapshot - 7747 compiled it - and tried
 to boot the install images - 
it just loops never getting past - the Linux message - "Trying to unpack
rootfs image as initramfs..."

> Went back to 7702 and it came up to the network configuration fine. 

Compiled 7702 and latest 7747 today and both give similar result of 23 minutes or so and 33 Billion instruction count before unpack is finished.

14:15:10 Ö 15.455934! Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
14:38:09 Ö 704.650414! Freeing initrd memory: 77722k freed

> Are you running hercules under Windows or Linux?

Linux.

> It also depends if you are using CTCs - it would be the IP address at the
other end, if you are using LCS devices it should be your router or gateway
to the internet.   LCS Devices are simpler to use on Linux you do not need
to add routes just a change to sysctl.conf to
net.ipv4.conf.default.proxy_arp = 1 

Keeping the configuration which worked for FC11 which used CTC.

If I don't run the hercules.init script before hercules startup the 2nd CTC fails to initalize due to tun (?) not available.

My host only has 1Gb RAM and 512Mb swap partition.  I added a 2Gb swap file and with SVN 7747 don't seem to get segmentation faults anymore up IPL of C.  Down in the interactive install it askes for 'partner to partner' and then states it is trying gateway and later DNS IP address.  I haven't gotten the right info yet as it never cannot ping the DNS Server.

A little bit of my log:

14:38:36 Scanning for available network devices...
14:38:38 Autodetection found 0 devices.
14:38:40 Note: There is a device blacklist active× (Clearing might take long)
14:38:40 c) clear blacklist, m) manual config, r) rescan, s) shell:
15:13:19 HHC00160I SCP command: 'c'
15:13:19 c
15:13:19 Clearing device blacklist...
15:13:26 /init: line 491: nettable: bad array subscript
15:13:26 
15:13:27 
15:13:27 Network type (qeth, lcs, ctc, ? for help). Default is qeth:
15:13:29 INFO kernel:Ö 1764.690769! lcs: Loading LCS driver
15:13:31 INFO kernel:Ö 1765.561956! ctcm: CTCM driver initialized
15:13:34 HHC00160I SCP command: 'ctc'
15:13:34 ctc
15:13:34 
15:13:34 Read,write channel (e.g. 0.0.0600,0.0.0601 or ? for help)
15:13:46 HHC00160I SCP command: '0.0.0600,0.0.0601'
15:13:46 0.0.0600,0.0.0601
15:13:48 Detected: channel-to-channel adapter (CTC/A)
15:13:48 
15:13:48 CTC protocol (0, 1, 3, or ? for help). Default is 0:
15:13:54 HHC00160I SCP command: '0'
15:13:54 0
15:13:54 Activating network device...
15:13:55 INFO kernel:Ö 1777.926703! net ctc0: setup OK : r/w = ch-0.0.0600/ch-0.0.0601, p
15:13:55 rotocol : 0
15:13:58 
15:13:58 Hostname of your new Linux guest (FQDN e.g. s390.redhat.com or ? for help):
15:13:58 INFO kernel:Ö 1779.297699! net ctc0: Connected with remote side
15:14:19 HHC00160I SCP command: 's390.halfmeg.org'
15:14:19 s390.halfmeg.org
15:14:20 
15:14:20 IPv4 address (e.g. 10.0.0.2 or ? for help)
15:15:05 HHC00160I SCP command: '192.168.200.3'
15:15:06 192.168.200.3
15:15:06 
15:15:06 IPv4 address of your point-to-point partner or ? for help:
15:15:14 HHC00160I SCP command: '?'
15:15:14 ?
15:15:14 Help text for point-to-point partner:
15:15:14 IPv4 address of your CTC or ESCON point-to-point partner.
15:15:14 
15:15:14 IPv4 address of your point-to-point partner or ? for help:
15:15:46 HHC00160I SCP command: '192.168.200.4'
15:15:46 192.168.200.4
15:15:46 Trying to reach gateway 192.168.200.4...
15:15:53 
15:15:53 IPv4 addresses of DNS servers (separated by colons ':' or ? for help):
15:16:01 HHC00160I SCP command: '?'
15:16:01 ?
15:16:01 Help text for DNS servers:
15:16:01 Enter IPv4 addresses of DNS servers separated by colons ':'
15:16:01 Default are no DNS servers at all.
15:16:01 However, you might encounter problems without a nameserver,
15:16:01 especially with FTP installs.
15:16:01 An example with 2 servers would be: 10.0.0.250:10.1.1.1
15:16:01 
15:16:01 IPv4 addresses of DNS servers (separated by colons ':' or ? for help):
15:18:12 HHC00160I SCP command: '98.66.242.91'
15:18:12 98.66.242.91
15:18:13 Trying to reach DNS servers...
15:19:14 Could not ping DNS server: 98.66.242.91

I tried 192.168.200.1 for point-to-point ( gateway ? ) which it didn't balk at but still couldn't get past the DNS address ( thinik I tried 192.168.1.254 for DNS also ).

You mentioned LCS is simpler so may attempt to switch to that.

Ignoring the above problems with DNS and perhaps the gateway addresses I continued the install and got to this point:

15:28:19 Starting sshd to allow login over the network.
15:28:19 HHC00801I Processor CP00: 'Operation exception' code 0001 ilc 4
15:28:19 HHC02267I PSW=0705F00180000000 000003FFFCF524A0 INST=B93E0002 KIMD 0,2 compute_intermediate_message_digest
15:28:19 HHC02267I V:0000000000000000: Translation exception 003B
15:28:19 HHC02267I V:000002AAD057EA60:K:06=67452301 EFCDAB89 98BADCFE 10325476 . Á.ï.¨iqª.ú...ä
15:28:19 /init: line 178: 364 Illegal instruction /usr/sbin/sshd -f /etc/ssh/sshd_c
15:28:19 onfig.anaconda
15:28:19 
15:28:19 Connect now to 192.168.200.3 and log in as user 'install' to start the installat
15:28:19 ion.
15:28:19 E.g. using: ssh -x install at 192.168.200.3
15:28:19 For VNC or text mode, disable X11 forwarding (recommended) with 'ssh -x'.
15:28:19 For X11, enable X11 forwarding with 'ssh -X'.
15:28:19 
15:28:19 You may log in as the root user to start an interactive shell.
15:29:14 HHC00160I SCP command: 'login root'
15:29:14 login root
15:29:14 sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
15:29:14 sh: no job control in this shell
15:29:15 sh-4.2# 
15:29:26 HHC00160I SCP command: 'ls'
15:29:26 ls
15:29:26 bin etc init lib64 proc run selinux tmp var
15:29:26 dev firmware lib modules root sbin sys usr
15:29:27 sh-4.2# 
15:29:40 HHC00160I SCP command: 'shutdown -h now'b

A ssh from another terminal window on the same host pc timed out connecting.  Logging in via the hercules console it does get to where one can do a 'ls' and get response back.

In a couple of places I noticed hercules get an 'operation exception' and the above snippet of the log shows one.  Is this type error expected ?

Phil R 		 	   		  
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