Installation under Hercules?

[Matt Zimmerman]

Has anyone successfully used the installer in:

dists/woody/main/disks-s390/3.0.12-2001-08-21

to install Debian under Hercules?  Since recent kernels no longer seem to
recognize my emulated DASD volume, I decided to start from scratch.  The
system IPLs successfully, and I can poke around in the rescue ramdisk, but
when I attempt to format the DASD, I get a kernel oops:

[...]
--->> ATTENTION  <<---                                                          
All data in the specified range of that device will be lost.                    
Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched:                       
.yes                                                                            
yes                                                                             
Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee).           
Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address
00000000  
Oops: 0004                                                                      
CPU:    0                                                                       
Process dasdfmt (pid: 62, stackpage=038D1000)                                   
Kernel PSW:    07082000 801cb754
task: 038d0000 ksp: 038d1a68 pt_regs: 038d19d0
+
Kernel GPRS:                                                                    
00000000  00000000  00000000  0007fff4                                          
801e218c  00000007  003e79e4  003dda74                                          
00005e00  003ccbd8  0012c41c  00000000                                          
00000000  801cb718  801cb7b2  038d1a68                                          
Kernel ACRS:                                                                    
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000                                          
00000001  00000000  00000000  00000000                                          
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000                                          
00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000                                          
Kernel BackChain  CallChain                                                     
       038d1a68    <00000000>!                                                  
       038d1ac8    <001cb7b2>!                                                  
       038d1b28    <001e21e2>!                                                  
       038d1b88    <001de358>!                                                  
       038d1de8    <001de92c>!                                                  
       038d1e48    <00143238>!                                                  
       038d1ea8    <0014c7d8>!                                                  
       038d1f08    <001030d0>!                                                  
Segmentation fault                                                              
#                                                                               

Linux (none) 2.4.5-s390 #1 SMP Wed Aug 1 19:21:20 CEST 2001 s390 unknown        

...

I just replaced the kernel with the one from kernel-image-2.4.7-s390, and
now it seems to be working.  So as long as the next release of s390
boot-floppies uses kernel 2.4.7, it should be fine.

-- 
 - mdz


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