Bug#396228: debian-installer: s390 can no longer install using Hipersockets interface
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
In earlier versions of the Sarge installer, when you selected a qeth
device which was a HiperSockets transport (Layer 3 only) coupled to a VM
guest LAN (or, probably, to a real HiperSockets trans-LPAR connector,
but I don't have any way to test that), you were prompted to choose eth0
or sit0, and as long as you chose eth0 everything proceeded OK.
For some time now--at least a couple months--this has been broken. You
no longer get the sit0/eth0 prompt, and (by looking at the guest LAN
from outside the virtual machine) it appears that the IP address on the
HiperSockets adapter is not being set.
This breaks installation of Sarge for all s390/HiperSockets users (I
don't know how many of these there are, but at least one). Using an
ancient installer appears to work (the lack of kernel modules may still
bite me, but installation is not complete), and using QDIO OSA rather
than HiperSockets worked last I tried (which has admittedly been
months). My guess is that it's defaulting to IPv6 instead of IPv4 (sit0
was always the first choice), and HiperSockets, at least under z/VM 4.4,
doesn't support IPv6.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: s390
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-s390 (I think)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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