On 8/4/2011 6:57 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On 08/04/2011 04:27 AM, Vic Cross wrote:
> I'm trying out F15 under z/VM 5.4. I have no ECKD DASD at my site; I rely
> on FCP disks. I try to use z/VM FBA Emulation as much as possible (rather
> than zfcp) as it makes disk management much easier.
>
> I tried to install F15 on a guest with FBA minidisks, and the result is a
> non-bootable system. At the completion of the installation phase, I tell
> the system to Shutdown and it does so cleanly. The re-ipl fails however;
> the kernel is unable to find the root filesystem and panics.
>
> Two things are notable. In the kernel output after the reboot, the kernel
> command line is about four lines of gibberish (mostly blanks, but a
> smattering of random punctuation marks). Also, I tried attaching the disks
> to a running system but no valid filesystem was found. (I was trying to
> fix what I thought might have just been a problem with zipl, by attaching
> the disks to a running system.)
>
> I tried to do a RHEL6 install a while ago, but I could not even get it to
> install -- Anaconda had no support for FBA disks. The fact that F15 was
> able to successfully go through Anaconda was encouraging, but perhaps it's
> not there yet. Has anyone tried a similar install and has experiences to
> share?
>
> On a related note, a Kickstart install to FBA disks fails in much the same
> way as my prior RHEL6 attempts. In the anaconda.log during install I see
> Anaconda successfully finds the DASDs and the partition, but it "ignores"
> the partitions and then reports that there are no usable disks.
Known problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707027
Patches welcome.
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with the appropriate permissions"
is it a Fedora bug somewhere? Then you might get an answer.