Installing RedHat Enterprise 3 under z/VM 4.4

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Wed Mar 9 00:17:34 UTC 2005


Larry Pickering wrote:
> 
> Hello list  ,    
> 
> Has anyone else had a problem were Linux can't see the DASD defined on 
> the z/VM  host ?    ..
> 
> The messages on the VM guest seem to be ok,  but when I SSH in I get a 
> message saying "no disk drives found"
> 
> 
> I'm using NFS on a RedHat Enterprise 3 (Intel) machine for the install..  
> 
> 
> Thanks Larry

To be honest, I've never used VM, so I can't answer this.  Anyone else?

>  
> 
> 
> redhat.parm  file
> 
> =====================
> 
> ROOT=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000
> CMSDASD=191                                
> CMSCONFFILE=redhat.parm                    
> DASD=200-202                              
> IPADDR=10.1.15.200                        
> NETWORK=10.1.1.1                          
> NETMASK=255.255.0.0                        
> GATEWAY=10.1.1.1                          
> BROADCAST=10.1.255.255                    
> HOSTNAME=RH01.CYBERMATION.COM              
> MTU=1492                                  
>  
> 
> 
> Mini-disk defined
> 
> ==================
> 
> LABEL  VDEV M  STAT   CYL TYPE BLKSZ   FILES  BLKS USED-(%) BLKS LEFT 
>  BLK TOTAL
> LNX191 191  A   R/W    45 3390 4096        5       2145-26       5955   
>     8100
> *LNX201 201  B   R/W   200 3390 4096        0         11-00      35989   
>    36000*
> *LNX202 202  C   R/W  1000 3390 4096        0         19-00     179981   
>   180000*
> *LNX200 200  D   R/W   100 3390 4096        0          7-00      17993   
>    18000*
> MNT190 190  S   R/O   100 3390 4096      692      14304-79       3696   
>    18000
> MNT19E 19E  Y/S R/O   250 3390 4096     1009      26522-59      18478   
>    45000
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Log messages on VM guest
> 
> =============================
> 
> Linux version 2.4.21-4.EL (bhcompile at devel5.z900.redhat.com) (gcc 
> version 3.2.3
> 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)) #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:30:41 EDT 2003   
>        
> We are running under VM (64 bit mode)                                   
>        
> On node 0 totalpages: 65536                                             
>        
> zone(0): 65536 pages.                                                   
>        
> zone(1): 0 pages.                                                       
>        
> zone(2): 0 pages.                                                       
>        
> Kernel command line: ROOT=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off ramdisk_size=40000
>                      CMSDASD=191                                         
>        
>                      CMSCONFFILE=redhat.parm                             
>        
>                      DASD=200-202                                       
>        
>                      IPADDR=10.1.15.200                                 
>        
>                      NETWORK=10.1.1.1                                   
>        
>                      NETMASK=255.255.0.0                                 
>        
>                      GATEWAY=10.1.1.1                                   
>        
>                      BROADCAST=10.1.255.255                             
>        
>                      HOSTNAME=RH01.CYBERMATION.COM                       
>        
>                      MTU=1492                                           
>        
> Highest subchannel number detected (hex) : 000E                         
>        
> Calibrating delay loop... 304.74 BogoMIPS                               
>        
> Memory: 241356k/262144k available (2364k kernel code, 0k reserved, 994k 
> data, 32
> 4k init)                                                                 
>        
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)         
>        
> Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)           
>        
> Mount cache hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)               
>        
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)         
>        
> Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)           
>        
> debug: Initialization complete                                           
>        
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX                                     
>        
> Detected 2 CPU's                                                         
>        
> Boot cpu address  0                                                     
>        
> cpu 0 phys_idx=0 vers=FF ident=0539FA machine=2066 unused=0000           
>        
> cpu 1 phys_idx=1 vers=FF ident=0539FA machine=2066 unused=0000           
>        
> Starting migration thread for cpu 0                                     
>        
> Starting migration thread for cpu 1                                     
>        
> init_mach : starting machine check handler                               
>        
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4                                               
>        
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Initializing RT netlink socket                                           
>    
> mach_handler : ready                                                     
>    
> mach_handler : waiting for wakeup                                          
> Starting kswapd                                                            
> VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1                                              
> aio_setup: num_physpages = 16384                                         
>    
> aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 104                                     
>    
> pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured                                         
>    
> NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46                                                  
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 256 RAM disks of 40000K size 1024 blocksize    
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27                     
>    
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.                                           
>    
> md: autorun ...                                                            
> md: ... autorun DONE.                                                      
> Initializing Cryptographic API                                           
>    
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0                                          
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 12Kbytes                      
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)                 
>    
> Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM                               
>    
> Initializing IPsec netlink socket                                          
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.                        
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0                               
>    
> Freeing initrd memory: 5486k freed                                       
>    
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.                              
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed                                    
> Starting the zSeries initrd to configure networking. Version is 1.01     
>    
> Enter which kind of network device do you intend to use                    
>  (e.g. ctc, escon, iucv, eth, hsi, tr):                                    
> eth                                                                        
> Enter parameters you need to pass to the channel device layer.  
> This includes the I/O ports of your ctc, escon, qeth, hsi and lcs 
> devices.      
> (e.g. "ctc0,0x600,0x601" will activate the ctc0 interface at I/O         
>        
> ports 0x600,0x601)                                                       
>        
> Hipersocket interfaces need to be configured like qeth devices,         
>        
> p.e. qeth0,0x3000,0x3001,0x3002                                         
>        
> Additional parameters for QETH devices such as the portname             
>        
> should be entered at the next prompt, not here !                         
>        
> qeth0,0x600,0x0601,0x0602                                               
>        
> Each OSA-Express feature in QDIO mode must be associated with a port 
> name      
> Enter additional parameters for your QETH device                         
>        
> (e.g. "add_parms,0x10,{lo_devno,hi_devno},portname:port_name")           
>        
> Press enter if you don't want to enter additional parameters             
>        
> add_parms,0x10,0x600,0x602,portname:osdport1                             
>        
> qdio: loading QDIO base support version 2 ($Revision: 1.145 $/$Revision: 
> 1.57 $)
>                                                                         
>        
> qeth: loading qeth S/390 OSA-Express driver ($Revision: 1.337 
> $/$Revision: 1.113
>  $/$Revision: 1.42 $:VLAN)                                               
>        
>  qeth: allocated 0 spare buffers                                         
>        
> qeth: Trying to use card with devnos 0x600/0x601/0x602                   
>        
> qeth: Device 0x600/0x601/0x602 is an OSD Express card (level: V440)     
>        
> with link type Gigabit Eth (no portname needed by interface)             
>        
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0                                   
>        
> Enter your DNS server(s), separated by colons (:):                       
>        
> 131.50.30.14                                                             
>        
> Enter your DNS search domain(s) (if any), separated by colons (:):       
>        
>                                                                         
>        
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:00:01:00:00:00                 
>        
>           inet addr:10.1.15.200  Bcast:10.1.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0   
>        
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1       
>        
>           RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0           
>      
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100                                   
>      
>           RX bytes:8085 (7.8 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)                     
>      
>           Interrupt:4                                                   
>      
>                                                                         
>      
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback                                     
>      
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0                           
>      
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1                       
>      
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0             
>      
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0           
>      
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0                                     
>      
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)                         
>      
>                                                                         
>      
> Kernel IP routing table                                                 
>      
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> 127.0.0.1       0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 
> lo    
> 10.1.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 
> eth0  
> 0.0.0.0         10.1.1.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
> eth0  
> Starting portmap.                                                       
>      
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded                                   
>      
>                                                                         
>      
> Starting telnetd and sshd to allow login over the network.               
>      
>                                                                         
>      
> Connect now to 10.1.15.200 to start the installation.                   
>      
> sshd(pam_unix)[62]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)             
>      
> * modules to insert vga16fb                                             
>      
> * module(s) vga16fb not found                                           
>      
> * load module set done                                                   
>      
> * 249216 kB are available                                               
>      
> * modules to insert cramfs vfat sunrpc lockd nfs loop isofs floppy
> * loaded cramfs from /modules/modules.cgz                            
> * loaded sunrpc from /modules/modules.cgz                            
> * loaded lockd from /modules/modules.cgz                            
> * loaded nfs from /modules/modules.cgz                              
> * loaded loop from /modules/modules.cgz                              
> * module(s) vfat isofs floppy not found                              
> * inserted /tmp/cramfs.o                                            
> * inserted /tmp/sunrpc.o                                            
> * inserted /tmp/lockd.o                                              
> * inserted /tmp/nfs.o                                                
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)                                        
> * inserted /tmp/loop.o                                              
> * load module set done                                              
> * modules to insert ide-cd                                          
> * module(s) ide-cd not found                                        
> * load module set done                                              
> * modules to insert sd_mod sr_mod                                    
> * module(s) sd_mod sr_mod not found                                  
> * load module set done                                              
> * modules to insert dasd_mod                                        
> * loaded dasd_mod from /modules/modules.cgz                          
> dasd: initializing...                                                
> dasd: Registered successfully to major no 94                        
> dasd: initialization finished                                        
> * inserted /tmp/dasd_mod.o                                          
> * load module set done                                              
> * modules to insert dasd_diag_mod dasd_fba_mod dasd_eckd_mod        
> * loaded dasd_fba_mod from /modules/modules.cgz                      
> * loaded dasd_eckd_mod from /modules/modules.cgz                    
> * module(s) dasd_diag_mod not found
> dasd(fba): FBA  discipline initializing                                 
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Add lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Add lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Free lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Free lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Add lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Add lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Free lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Free lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Add lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Add lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Free lowmem page :000000000e651000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Free lowmem page :000000000e667000                   
>        
> dasd(fba): We are interested in: Dev 9336/00 @ CU 6310/00               
>        
> dasd(fba): We are interested in: Dev 3370/00 @ CU 3880/00               
>        
> * inserted /tmp/dasd_fba_mod.o                                           
>        
> dasd(eckd): ECKD discipline initializing                                 
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Add lowmem page :000000000e595000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0200> Add lowmem page :000000000e593000                   
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda  ( 94:  0),0200 at 01: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:100 
> Head:15 S
> ec:224                                                                   
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda  ( 94:  0),0200 at 01: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04): 
> Configuration da
> ta read                                                                 
>        
> dasd: No request IRQ                                                     
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Add lowmem page :000000000e58a000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0201> Add lowmem page :000000000e589000                   
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda  ( 94:  0),0200 at 01: (4kB blks): 72000kB at 
> 48kB/trk linux
>  disk layout                                                             
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdb  ( 94:  4),0201 at 02: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:200 
> Head:15 S
> ec:224
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdb  ( 94:  4),0201 at 02: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04): 
> Configuration da
> ta read                                                                 
>        
> dasd: No request IRQ                                                     
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Add lowmem page :000000000e583000                   
>        
> dasd: <devno: 0202> Add lowmem page :000000000e582000                   
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdb  ( 94:  4),0201 at 02: (4kB blks): 144000kB at 
> 48kB/trk linu
> x disk layout                                                           
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdc  ( 94:  8),0202 at 03: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:1000 
> Head:15
> Sec:224                                                                 
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdc  ( 94:  8),0202 at 03: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04): 
> Configuration da
> ta read                                                                 
>        
> dasd: No request IRQ                                                     
>        
> dasd: waiting for responses...                                           
>        
> dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdc  ( 94:  8),0202 at 03: (4kB blks): 720000kB at 
> 48kB/trk linu
> x disk layout                                                           
>        
> Partition check:                                                         
>        
>  dasda:CMS1/  LNX200: dasda1                                             
>        
>  dasdb:CMS1/  LNX201: dasdb1                                             
>        
>  dasdc:CMS1/  LNX202: dasdc1                                             
>        
> dasd(eckd): We are interested in: CU 3880/00                             
>        
> dasd(eckd): We are interested in: CU 3990/00                             
>        
> dasd(eckd): We are interested in: CU 2105/00                             
>        
> dasd(eckd): We are interested in: CU 9343/00                             
>        
> * inserted /tmp/dasd_eckd_mod.o                                         
>        
> * load module set done                                                   
>        
> * looking for usb controllers                                           
>        
> * no usb controller found                                               
>        
> * no firewire controller found                                           
>        
> * no pcic controller found                                               
>        
> * probing buses    
> * finished bus probing                                                   
>        
> * found nothing                                                         
>        
> * going to set language to en_US.UTF-8                                   
>        
> * setting language to en_US.UTF-8                                       
>        
> * need to set up networking                                             
>        
> * going to pick interface                                               
>        
> * going to do getNetConfig                                               
>        
> * doing kickstart... setting it up                                       
>        
> * reverse name lookup worked                                             
>        
> * starting to STEP_URL                                                   
>        
> * going to do nfsGetSetup                                               
>        
> * mounting nfs path nissan.cybermation.com:/export/home                 
>        
> nfs warning: mount version older than kernel                             
>        
> * mounted nissan.cybermation.com:/export/home on /mnt/source             
>        
> * can access stage2.img                                                 
>        
> * mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/RedHat/base/stage2.img fd 
> is 14  
> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.                                       
>        
> VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0).                       
>        
> * mntloop loop7 on /tmp/product-disk as 
> /mnt/source/RedHat/base/product.img fd i
> s 14                                                                     
>        
> Unable to identify CD-ROM format.                                       
>        
> * recursively copying /tmp/product-disk/lost+found                       
>        
> * recursively copying /tmp/product-disk/installclasses                   
>        
> * recursively copying /tmp/product-disk/pixmaps                         
>        
> * umounting loopback /tmp/product-disk loop7                             
>        
> * after mountStage2, rc is 0                                             
>        
> * got url nfs://mnt/source/.                                             
>        
> * getting ready to spawn shell now                                       
>        
>  %G* modules to insert ide-cd                                           
>        
> * module(s) ide-cd not found        
> * load module set done                                                   
>    
> * modules to insert sd_mod sr_mod                                       
>      
> * module(s) sd_mod sr_mod not found                                     
>      
> * load module set done                                                   
>    
> * probing buses                                                         
>      
> * finished bus probing                                                   
>    
> * found nothing                                                         
>      
> -/bin/sh-2.05b# * modules to insert fsm ctc                             
>      
> * loaded fsm from /modules/modules.cgz                                   
>    
> * loaded ctc from /modules/modules.cgz                                   
>    
> * inserted /tmp/fsm.o                                                   
>      
> CTC driver Version: 1.57 with CHANDEV support initialized               
>      
> * inserted /tmp/ctc.o                                                   
>      
> * load module set done                                                   
>    
> * modules to insert iucv netiucv                                         
>    
> * loaded iucv from /modules/modules.cgz                                 
>      
> * loaded netiucv from /modules/modules.cgz                               
>    
> IUCV lowlevel driver Version: 1.39  initialized                         
>      
> * inserted /tmp/iucv.o                                                   
>    
> NETIUCV driver Version: 1.21  initialized                               
>      
> * inserted /tmp/netiucv.o                                               
>      
> * load module set done                                                   
>    
> * looking for video cards requiring agpgart module                       
>    
> * no video cards found                                                   
>    
> * modules to insert md raid0 raid1 xor raid5 msdos reiserfs jfs xfs 
> lvm-mod  
> * loaded raid0 from /mnt/runtime/modules/modules.cgz                     
>    
> * loaded raid1 from /mnt/runtime/modules/modules.cgz                     
>    
> * loaded xor from /mnt/runtime/modules/modules.cgz                       
>    
> * loaded raid5 from /mnt/runtime/modules/modules.cgz                     
>    
> * loaded lvm-mod from /mnt/runtime/modules/modules.cgz    
> * module(s) md msdos reiserfs jfs xfs not found                
> md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2                      
> * inserted /tmp/raid0.o                                        
> md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3                      
> * inserted /tmp/raid1.o                                        
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed                            
>    8regs     :   471.200 MB/sec                                
>    8regs_prefetch:   568.800 MB/sec                            
>    32regs    :   404.400 MB/sec                                
>    32regs_prefetch:   373.200 MB/sec                          
> raid5: using function: 8regs_prefetch (568.800 MB/sec)        
> * inserted /tmp/xor.o                                          
> md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4                      
> * inserted /tmp/raid5.o                                        
> LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded                  
> * inserted /tmp/lvm-mod.o                                      
> * load module set done                                        
> * NFS install method detected, will use RHupdates/            
> * Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda                    
> sshd(pam_unix)[62]: session closed for user root              
> sending termination signals...done                            
> sending kill signals...done                                    
> disabling swap...                                              
> unmounting filesystems...                                      
> ¨/mnt/runtime done                                            
> ¨disabling /dev/loop0                                          
> ¨/proc done                                                    
> ¨/dev/pts done                                                
> ¨/tmp/ramfs done                                              
> ¨/mnt/source done  
> you may safely reboot your system                                       
>                                                                         
>                                                                         
>                                                                         
>                                                                         
>                    
> 
> 
> Messages received on Telnet session ..
> 
> ====================================
> 
>                                          Warning
>                       No hard drives have been found.  
>                       You probably need to manually    
>                        choose device drivers for the    
>                       installation to succeed.  Would  
>                       you like to select drivers now?  
>                                                        
> 
> 
> 
>                                             Devices
>                 No device drivers have been loaded for your  
>                      system.  Would you like to load any now?  
>              
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                               S/390 Channel to Channel (ctc)             
>            
>           S/390 Inter-User Communication Vehicle (iucv) (netiucv)       
>                                              
> 
> 
> 
>                        An error has occurred - no valid devices  
>                       were found on which to create new file    
>                        systems. Please check your hardware for  
>                             the cause of this problem.                
> 
> 
> 
> 
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