On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Peter 1 Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are technical requirements(*) that need to be met by a lv setup > to be supported without completely redoing the current disk IPL > mechanism used for Linux on System z. The aim of any zipl enhancement > into that direction should of course be to include as many of the most > common setups as possible. I'd say it should be possible to come up with a generic IPLer that is put on each Linux disk with a 3card loader in the place &deity meant it to be. That should happen with dasdfmt rather than zipl. The generic IPLer would get its info from one of the first blocks on the payload of the disk (the MBR?) as expected by Linux tools. IIRC the Linux model supports a number of unused blocks at the start of te disk (one track is probably enough). That would free the Linux tools from dealing with the short blocks of the IPL program. -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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