Re: Fedora 23 s390x installed on Hercules

[Neale Ferguson]

You need a root= statement in the generic.prm file. For example here’s what we use for a
RHEL7 ISO mounted on an internal NFS server:

root=live:nfs://172.17.16.45/export/redhat/rhel7/s390x/iso/images/install.img

Neale Ferguson

From: Dell-Edward <dell.coleman(a)gmail.com&gt;
Reply-To: Fedora <s390x(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 05:40
To: Fedora <s390x(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt;
Subject: Fedora 23 s390x installed on Hercules

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Re: Fedora 23 s390x installed on Hercules

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Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:33:46 -0500

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Dell-Edward <[e-mail]><mailto:[e-mail]>

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This goes long fine but ends with a message cant find /dev/root What next?
how do I get to have the dev dir creted on the new file system?
Many thx..

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To do the install I downloaded the ISO to my x86 machine, and used the x86 httpd server to
perform the install.

With the httpd server running and the ISO mounted at a location httpd could access.
    mkdir /var/www/html/install/DVD1/
    mount -o loop Fedora-Server-DVD-s390x-23.iso  /var/www/html/install/DVD1/

I started hercules and issued this command to begin the install;
    ipl ks-lvm.ins

where ks-lvm.ins is:
    * minimal lpar ins file
    images/kernel.img 0x00000000
    images/initrd.img 0x02000000
    images/generic.prm.kslvm 0x00010480
    images/initrd.addrsize 0x00010408

and images/generic.prm.kslvm is
    ro ramdisk_size=40000 cio_ignore=all,!0.0.0009
    rd.dasd=0.0.0130
    rd.znet=ctc,0.0.0600,0.0.0601,protocol=0
   
ip=192.168.200.3:192.168.200.4:192.168.200.4:255.255.255.0:f23-s390x.edu:slccw0.0.0600:none
    nameserver=192.168.1.254
    inst.repo=http://192.168.200.4/install/DVD1
    ks=http://192.168.200.4/install/f23-lvm.ks

and /var/www/html/install/f23-lvm.ks is
    url --url=http://192.168.200.4/install/DVD1
    text
    part /boot --fstype="ext4" --size=500
    part pv.01 --grow --size 1
    volgroup Fedora --pesize=32768 pv.01
    logvol /  --grow --size=2048 --name=Root --vgname=Fedora
    logvol swap  --fstype="swap" --size=2048 --name=Swap --vgname=Fedora
    zerombr
    bootloader --location=mbr
    clearpart --all --initlabel
    logging --level=debug
    rootpw --plaintext fedora
    firewall --enabled
    keyboard us
    lang en_US
    timezone --isUtc America/New_York
    poweroff
    %packages --ignoremissing
    end

and fedora.cnf is

    CPUSERIAL    002623                   # CPU serial number
    CPUMODEL    2097                       # CPU model number
    MODEL           EMULATOR            # STSI returned model
    PLANT            ZZ                           # STSI returned plant
    MANUFACTURER HRC                # STSI returned manufacturer
    LPARNAME    HERCULES            # DIAG 204 returned lparname
    CPUVERID     FD                          # CPU Version Identification
    MAINSIZE      2048                       # Main storage size in megabytes
    XPNDSIZE     0                             # Expanded storage size in megabytes
    NUMCPU       2                             # Number of CPUs
    ARCHMODE  z/Arch                    # Architecture mode S/370, ESA/390 or z/Arch
    ECPSVM       NO                         # VM Assist : NO or Level (20 recommended)
    OSTAILOR    LINUX                    # OS tailoring
    SYSEPOCH  1900                       # Base year for initial TOD clock
    PANRATE      FAST                     # Panel refresh rate
    HTTPPORT   8081                      # 127.0.0.1:8081
    CNSLPORT   3270                      # TCP port number to which consoles connect
    #   .-----------------------Device number
    #   |     .-----------------Device type
    #   |     |       .---------File name and parameters
    #   |     |       |
    #   V     V       V
    # ----    ----    --------------------
    0009    3215-C  / noprompt
    000C    3505    images/kernel.img images/generic.prm images/initrd.img autopad
    001F    3270
    # root's password is "fedora"
    #
    # dasdinit -bz2 -r linux-fba.130 9336 16777216
    # or
    # dd if=/dev/zero of=linux-fba.130.raw bs=1 count=0 seek=8G
    # dasdcopy -o CFBA -bz2 -r linux-fba.130.raw linux-fba.130
    #0130    9336    dasd/linux-fba.130
    #
    # dasdinit -bz2 -linux linux-ckd.130 3390-9 LNX000
    0130    3390     dasd/linux-ckd.130
    #
    # CTC network
    # run "iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.200.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
MASQUERADE"
    #     "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
    # for allowing the Fedora VM to access external networks
    0600.2    3088 CTCI /dev/net/tun 1492 192.168.200.3 192.168.200.4 255.255.255.255

It was over a month ago that I did this, but I think these are what worked for me
after a good bit of trial and error.


Karl