On Sep 7, 9:50 am, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > Vulcans never bluff. > -- Spock, "The Doomsday Machine", stardate 4202.1 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
