On Sep 11, 12:20 am, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:27 PM, GaryR wrote: > > > Well, unless someone comes to my rescue, I think I am officially > > giving up on getting Debian up and running on s390. I cam across a > > poster mentioning there are "depressing little Debian s390" > > developers. I understand this now. I also understand free software > > comes alot from free time of individuals, but what I have a problem > > with is those that are making profits from selling CD's with broken > > installers. I downloaded the (also "free") CentOS and it booted right > > away. Should have did this a week ago. > > I tried coming to your rescue in private; you apparently did not read > my message. I'll repeat it. > > You mentioned you're running under z/VM. > > Get your kernel image, your parmfile, and your initrd (download them > binary, recfm F, lrecl 80) and put them in your reader in that order, > with nothing else in your reader, and IPL from the reader. Do a > search for DEBIAN EXEC, which is a little bit of Rexx that automates > this process, if you like. > > That's all there is to it. The procedure is the same as it's always > been for Linux on S/390. > > Adam > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Adam. I think your response got lost amongst alot of spam. I am (thankfully) a little further along than this. I am completely familiar with the z/VM initrd boot process. I am currently running the 1st Marist build from 2001 in Production. So, the problem is in the kernel that is distributed on the DVD. I have also downloaded the s390 .iso from a Debian mirror hoping that it was a newer build, but no go. Is anyone else having this issue? They must be if they're using the binary's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
