Bug#281556: s390 installation report, installed system does not boot

[Adam Thornton <athornton@sinenomine.net>]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:

> After using google.com I found that I need to pass dasd=0120 to zipl 
> in order
> to boot. That worked. It is posible that dasd parameter is missing 
> because I
> did not use d-i for formating dasd and partitioning.

I believe this is the case.

A workaround to 281407 (the formatting loop) problem exists, too, if 
you don't have the fixed version: define more than one DASD device.  
The loop only appears if you have exactly one disk.

Adam