http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/sysload.html
Will this install on the HMC disk?  Then start the Linux on the SCSI SAN?

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Connor Krukosky
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/4/2015 11:26 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
>>
>> Your box has a floppy drive? Really?
>
> The SE does yes.
>>
>> Just so I'm clear... Your z890 plugs in to your SCSI disk box, but it
>> won't
>> IPL from it? That is, these are separate features? If I have this right,
>> then it should be possible to write a small program that could, at worst,
>> be keyed in to storage. This program would then perform the I/O
>> instructions to emulate the SCSI IPL. Sort of like the way VM emulates IPL
>> in a virtual machine. Well maybe this is just what FC 9904 does...
>>
> So let me explain how everything is attached:
> I have an old HP SCSI hard drive array attached to a SAN Data Gateway model
> 2108-G07.
> Then I have that go into a SAN switch via SW FCP connection SAN switch is
> model 2005-b16.
> Finally I have a LW fiber SFP in one of the ports of the SAN switch which
> then goes into the mainframe through a FICON-LX module.
> The FICON port is configured as an FCP interface in the IOCDS.
>
> I am not sure how one would go about writing such code as I am so new to all
> this but I will say that it sounds feasible...
> I just came across this though:
> http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE104/S9259vs.pdf
> Which mentions some tools specifically "zipl" which sounds like it may
> be-able to help me?
> Found it available to download here along with quite a few other tools:
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-overview.html
>
> I must get to bed now and will be out this weekend, but I will definitely
> look into this late next week after my finals at college.
>
> -Connor K
>
>
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