On 5 Aug 2012, at 16:55, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Yeah, found that page too. Does step 11 (Install the kernel image >> package) work pretty much like they say on that page (thinking S/390 >> bootloaders are pretty different from i386 ones)? > > The boot loader for s390 is ZIPL (part of the s390-tools package), > which is similar to LILO in that it uses a list of blocks determined > at map installer time to load the map file, kernel image, and initial > RAM file system image into memory. It also is typically configured > to use symbolic links, as LILO typically is too. The configuration > file is /etc/zipl.conf. Step 11 is not where you will have your > problem: Step 10 is. With ZIPL configured to use symbolic links and > using a custom kernel created by make-kpkg under Squeeze and later > releases, it will be necessary to install the two hook scripts called > zy-symlinks. Read that section carefully. You must install these > hook scripts BEFORE you install the kernel.
Does anyone have any practical examples of this? I don't want to bugger up my system (am of course backuping the DASD's before any install step :) Sampsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
