Tzafrir, I don't know that you'll be able to get either of them to work with _all_ kernel version. There's just too much version-dependent code to work with (I think). You should be able to re-compile zilo to work on 2.4 systems, and you might be able to get zipl to work on a 2.2 system.
The better option, probably, is to build enough intelligence into your startup scripts to pick the right command to use for the system that is running. It shouldn't be too hard to use the output of `uname -r` to make that choice. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: zipl from 2.2 or zilo from 2.4 Hi We need to be able to be able to load a machine, take some parameters from a network server, and according to that, create a modified system on this machine. Our system is SuSE (running as guest), with either kernel 2.2 or kernel 2.4. we use dasd disks. The problem is that if I try to run zilo from a system running kernel 2.4 I fail, and the same happens if I try to run zipl from a system running kernel 2.2. This seems to be due to incompatibility of the interface of the dasd drivers used by both kernels: zilo is unable to use the dasd support of kernel 2.4 to write directly to the disk and zipl is not able to use kernel 2.2's support. Is the above assertion correct? If so: any way to solve it (make either one of those work with both kernel versions)? Thanks in advance -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
