Scripts building kernel and initrd images

2016-12-12 Thread Tuan M. Hoang
Hi debian-s390, As far as I learnt from the debian-s390 archive, mainframes 'prefer' to boot using kernel image (kernel.debian, initrd.debian) rather than from ISO/CD images. I would like to learn the code that build up these kernel & initrd image files, which are located at

Re: bootloader/zipl in Debian

2017-08-08 Thread Tuan M. Hoang
On 08/08/2017 02:11 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > When the installer gets to configuring zipl-installer, it executes the > postinst: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/zipl-installer.git/tree/debian/zipl-installer.postinst > > this is where zipl is configured and executed in-target. >

bootloader/zipl in Debian

2017-08-08 Thread Tuan M. Hoang
Hello, I have a few questions regarding s390x bootloader on Debian, hope some gurus in the list could help me out. Says I have Debian installed in my disk. To make it bootable, I should install the bootloader on the disk to make it bootable. 'bootable-system' virtual package on s390x should be