On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Paul Raulerson wrote:
"zipl" as far as I can tell, does not write out the boot sector on
the DASD the same way, or at least it does not appear to. Running
zipl on a freshly copied volume here will not result in a DASD unit
that will IPL. "dd" will.
As to traditional - well - dd pretty well predates zipl and
chgroot; we were doing it in the late 1970's. ;)
If zipl does NOT write a boot sector, then that is a reportable bug.
You might need to rerun mkinitrd too. However, the whole point of
zipl is that it writes an IPL record to your DASD.
Adam
