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List:       linux-390
Subject:    Re: LCS problem Installing SLES 11 in "partition"  ( more)
From:       Mike At HammockTree <mike () hammocktree ! us>
Date:       2009-06-19 20:26:49
Message-ID: 828AE19EA524425B8026C3BF03A6191B () hitst60
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Yes, that got past the problem..   although there were a couple of issues
along the way.
For example, this kernel could  not seem to gunzip the initrd; it reported
bad magic numbers.  So I unzipped the initrd 'externally' and then just used
that as part of the IPL 'tape'.
I'm still battling later stages of the install process, mainly because of
the very slow/poor performance in this mode, but I  did  get past that early
roadblock.

Thanks Mark!!
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Post" <mpost@novell.com>
To: <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: LCS problem Installing SLES 11 in "partition" ( more)


>>> On 6/18/2009 at  9:52 PM, Mike At HammockTree <mike@hammocktree.us>
>>> wrote:
-snip-
> 17:02:04 Starting hardware detection...
> 17:02:04 modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
> /lib/modules/2.6.27.19/modules.dep:
> No such file
> 17:02:04  or directory
> 17:02:04
> 17:02:04 modprobe: FATAL: Could not load
> /lib/modules/2.6.27.19/modules.dep:
> No such file
> 17:02:04  or directory

I just ran some tests, and these messages lead me to believe you're using
the tapeipl.ikr kernel.  For whatever reason, that doesn't seem to work on
Hercules, and you need to use the vmrdr.ikr kernel.  (Yeah, I know, it seems
backwards.)  I typically just copy the suse.ins file, and modify it to point
to the parmfile I want to use.


Mark Post

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