I did read the man page, several times. I should have mentioned that I'm using s390-tools 1.2.4. The text you quote does not appear in the man page at that level. If I try to specify either prompt or timeout in the menu section, zipl complains about an unknown keyword, and won't run.
So, any advice as to how to get this to work with 1.2.4? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Oberparleiter Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: zipl boot menu "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > instead it just immediately boots the default kernel. My > /etc/zipl.conf *cough*man zipl.conf*cough* If the 'prompt' setting of the menu section is set to 1, a menu text will be displayed during IPL and the boot program will wait for user input: [...] If the 'timeout' option has been used, the boot menu will automatically start the default configuration after the specified number of seconds has passed without user input. [...] The loadparm function is available even if the menu has been deacti- vated by setting 'prompt' to zero or by installing only a single con- figuration. The menu can then be temporarily activated by passing the string 'prompt' via the loadparm function: #cp ipl 0192 loadparm prompt Regards, Peter Oberparleiter -- Peter Oberparleiter Linux on zSeries Development IBM Development Lab, Boeblingen/Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
