Dear all,

I want to install a SLES9 SP2 or SP3 Linux with autoyast on a z/VM guest without any manual intervention. Unfortunately the installation is always stopping after stage 1 (package installation, preparing bootloader, ...) with an unclear error message on my 3270. I have to re-IPL my system manually to continue with stage 2 (post installation, suse-config etc.).

That's output to 3270:

[...]
   umount: /y2update: not mounted
   umount: /var/adm/mount: not mounted
   Feb 15 19:48:19 suse sshd¬322|: Received signal 15; terminating.
[...]
   bash: no job control in this shell
   SuSE Instsys boeid120:/ #
[...]

My parmfile looks like:

   ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram1 ro init=/linuxrc dasd=150,151 TERM=dumb
   AUTOYAST=http://<IP>/autoinst.xml
   AUTOINSTALL=yes IP_INTERFACE=qeth IP_HOST=<hostname>
   IP_ADDR=x.x.x.x IP_NETMASK=x.x.x.x IP_BROADCAST=x.x.x.x
   IP_GATEWAY=x.x.x.x IP_DNS=x.x.x.x IP_SEARCH=x.x.x.x
   READ_DEVNO=7000 WRITE_DEVNO=7001 DATA_DEVNO=7002 PORTNAME=xxxxxx
   INST_INFO=ftp INST_IP_ADDR=x.x.x.x INST_IP_DIR=/SLES/sles9_s390_sp3
   FTPUSER=<user> FTPPASSWORD=<pw>
   INST_SCREEN=VNC VNC_PASSWORD=<pw> IP_MTU=1492 INST_PASSWORD=<pw>

The forceboot option is set to true.

Kind regards

         Kai Dusek