Installation under Hercules?
Has anyone successfully used the installer in:
dists/woody/main/disks-s390/3.0.12-2001-08-21
to install Debian under Hercules? Since recent kernels no longer seem to
recognize my emulated DASD volume, I decided to start from scratch. The
system IPLs successfully, and I can poke around in the rescue ramdisk, but
when I attempt to format the DASD, I get a kernel oops:
[...]
--->> ATTENTION <<---
All data in the specified range of that device will be lost.
Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched:
.yes
yes
Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee).
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address
00000000
Oops: 0004
CPU: 0
Process dasdfmt (pid: 62, stackpage=038D1000)
Kernel PSW: 07082000 801cb754
task: 038d0000 ksp: 038d1a68 pt_regs: 038d19d0
+
Kernel GPRS:
00000000 00000000 00000000 0007fff4
801e218c 00000007 003e79e4 003dda74
00005e00 003ccbd8 0012c41c 00000000
00000000 801cb718 801cb7b2 038d1a68
Kernel ACRS:
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Kernel BackChain CallChain
038d1a68 <00000000>!
038d1ac8 <001cb7b2>!
038d1b28 <001e21e2>!
038d1b88 <001de358>!
038d1de8 <001de92c>!
038d1e48 <00143238>!
038d1ea8 <0014c7d8>!
038d1f08 <001030d0>!
Segmentation fault
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Linux (none) 2.4.5-s390 #1 SMP Wed Aug 1 19:21:20 CEST 2001 s390 unknown
...
I just replaced the kernel with the one from kernel-image-2.4.7-s390, and
now it seems to be working. So as long as the next release of s390
boot-floppies uses kernel 2.4.7, it should be fine.
--
- mdz
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