Re: s390 Etch install problem
On Sep 7, 9:50 am, Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:34:39AM -0700, GaryR wrote:
> > I have purchased the Etch s390 DVD's and am having a problem with the
> > installer.
>
> Which DVD's? Installation from optical media should work but is mostly
> untested.
>
> > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 cramfs
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
> > block(1,0)
> > HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 802ECCE0
>
> The kernel missinterprets the initrd image. The s390 etch installer uses
> an initramfs, which is handled different. Please show the complete log.
>
> Usualy you can take the images fromhttp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-s390/curren....
>
> Bastian
>
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Thanks for the response.
Debian provides the installer, which is an initrd image, kernel and
parmfile. Are you saying what Debian releases on DVD (that I
purchased) will not work?
Below is the log:
Linux version 2.6.18-5-s390 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13)
(dannf@debian.org) (gcc ve
rsion 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 1
00:28:42 U
TC
2007
We are running under VM (31 bit
mode)
This machine has an IEEE
fpu
Detected 1
CPU's
Boot cpu address
0
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages:
262144
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 ip=off ro debian-installer/
locale=C
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384
bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144
bytes)
Memory: 1032448k/1048576k available (2192k kernel code, 0k reserved,
788k data,
100k
init)
Write protected kernel read-only data: 0x226000 -
0x299fff
Security Framework v1.0.0
initialized
SELinux: Disabled at
boot.
Capability LSM
initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries:
512
cpu 0 phys_idx=0 vers=FF ident=0589DE machine=2086
unused=8000
Brought up 1
CPUs
migration_cost=1000
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (bad gzip magic numbers);
looks like a
n
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 2451k
freed
NET: Registered protocol family
16
debug: Initialization
complete
cio: Channel measurements not available,
continuing.
NET: Registered protocol family
2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072
bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864
bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288
bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind
65536)
TCP reno
registered
audit: initializing netlink socket
(disabled)
audit(1189196497.091:1):
initialized
VFS: Disk quotas
dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096
bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic
API
io scheduler noop
registered
io scheduler anticipatory
registered
io scheduler deadline
registered
io scheduler cfq registered
(default)
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 24576K size 1024 blocksize
Channel measurement facility using extended format
(autodetected)
qdio: loading QDIO base support version
2
TCP bic
registered
NET: Registered protocol family
1
NET: Registered protocol family
10
lo: Disabled Privacy
Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling
driver
NET: Registered protocol family
17
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block
0
No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2
cramfs
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
block(1,0)
HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 802ECCE0
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