On Thursday 24 December 2009, Stephen Powell wrote: > Do you want me to use the production (Lenny) installer? Or do you want > me to use the "daily build" from Squeeze to do the installs?
The Squeeze installer would be best as that has up-to-date kernel and libparted. Unfortunately the "official" daily builds are not available (server down), but I've built a current generic image you can use: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/s390_091224/ > After installing parted (Version 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1, remember > this is a production Lenny system) I now get: > > odocdeb1:~# parted /dev/dasdb print > Error: /dev/dasdb: unrecognised disk label OK. This is a real problem. Apparently libparted in Lenny simply does not support these disks. And as libparted is the foundation on which partman is built, this needs to be addressed first (and will probably solve the basic support problem). We need to verify that the Squeeze (testing) version of parted still has the same issue before reporting it. Please do the following: - start the squeeze installer - when you have switched to SSH, change the debconf priority to "medium" - use the option "Download installer components" to install parted-udeb - proceed to partman; when you get the main partman display take a screenshot (just copy and paste from your SSH session) and then back up to the menu - start a shell and give the output from - ls /dev/dasd* - grep . /sys/bus/ccw/devices/<dev>/* - grep . /sys/block/dasdX/* - parted /dev/dasdX print - save the partman log (you can use the "Save debug logs" option) and attach gzipped > For a CMS-format disk on an ECKD device, the first two physical blocks > are IPL records. The third physical block (cylinder 0, head 0, record > 3) is the CMS disk label, whose exact > format I can supply if you need it. (On an FBA DASD, the second > block is the disk label. That's physical block 1, counting from 0.) > The first four bytes of the label are "CMS1" in EBCDIC, which is > X'C3D4E2F1' The next six bytes are the volume serial number in EBCDIC. > For example, if the volser is "DEB200", that would be X'C4C5C2F2F0F0'. > The other fields I can get for you if you need it. That's useful info for the parted maintainers. Cheers, FJP FYI, on my Hercules system 'parted <device> print' gives from D-I: # parted /dev/dasda print Model: IBM S390 DASD drive (dasd) Disk /dev/dasda: 2462MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: dasd Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 98.3kB 2000MB 2000MB ext3 2 2000MB 2462MB 462MB linux-swap The first two errors are probably due to an old parted issue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
