Re: Installing Debian S/390 on Hercules problems.
On Nov 19, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
So, when trying to "boot from tape" on hercules, I get the following
messages:
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 1k freed
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Freeing initrd memory: 1k freed
cramfs: wrong magic
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
I can't get any farther than that, and am unsure what's going wrong.
I'm following the directions from this article:
http://sinenomine.net/weblink/goto/336
I'm guessing that's the article I did for NASPA? If that's the case:
remove the tapemarks from between the tape file names in the TDF. Tape
handling has changed in Herc since I wrote that article.
Something else I found out that works with Debian-installer...oh,
speaking of which, you don't have to use Debian 3.0! Sarge will be out
pretty soon, and Debian-Installer works great with it. I'll do a d-i
daily rebuild and upload it....
Anyway, if you want, get the daily Sarge build from
http://www.fsf.net/~adam/sarge390
The tape stuff works just like it always did (with no tapemarks between
the files in the TDF), but you can also get the "generic" build images
and put them in the card reader, like:
000C 3595 kernel.debian parmfile.debian initrd.debian autopad eof
And IPL from device 000C.
Also, don't use vmnet anymore. Do something like
0400 3088 CTCI /dev/net/tun 1500 192.168.3.2 192.168.3.1
255.255.255.255
0401 3088 CTCI /dev/net/tun 1500 192.168.3.2 192.168.3.1
255.255.255.255
(where the first and second IP addresses are the address of the Debian
guest and of the end of the vCTC on the host system, respectively)
Adam
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