This is going way back to reply, I know (been waaay to busy lately), but about 18 months ago, I took an installation kernel and initrd, put it in /boot on a running Linux/390 system, and ran zipl against them. When I rebooted the system, I was put right into the installer. Got me thinking that trying to boot from tape, or the VM reader might be unnecessarily cumbersome.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Troth Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Centos ISOs No one is doing it (I say, without proof, but with confidence) but it IS possible to create IPLable .iso images, either FBA IPLable or presumably also SCSI IPLable. (I've personally done the former.) Can TRACKWRITE handle FBA? If so, then we might could crank out a tool that would stamp VDISK with bootable stuff from .iso files. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
