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 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@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@01: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:100 Head:15 S ec:224 dasd(eckd): /dev/dasda ( 94: 0),0200@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@01: (4kB blks): 72000kB at 48kB/trk linux disk layout dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdb ( 94: 4),0201@02: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:200 Head:15 S ec:224 dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdb ( 94: 4),0201@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@02: (4kB blks): 144000kB at 48kB/trk linu x disk layout dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdc ( 94: 8),0202@03: 3390/0A(CU:3990/04) Cyl:1000 Head:15 Sec:224 dasd(eckd): /dev/dasdc ( 94: 8),0202@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@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.