Hall, Ken (GTS) wrote:
Under zVM, it's a command ("IPL 100"), that that's where the confusion occurs. At the point where the install is done, the install kernel is booted from the VM reader. The ONLY hint of where the target system will eventually IPL from is where you tell kickstart to install the bootloader.But as I said, that's not specified anywhere in the doc. If I were following the logic rigidly, I might expect it to try to boot from the reader again, but that's obviously wrong. I never said it behaved improperly, it works as it should. It's just not documented very well, I think we're agreed on that.
The documents would, I think, be enormous if every aspect of expected behaviour was described. I would expect that, if you IPL from a reader, that the Linux kernel would be read from that reader, and that the initial ramdisk would be read from the reader. Until those tasks are accomplished, there really isn't enough intelligence to do anything different. A different approach would be to IPL some kind of bootloader as is done on Intellish systems (syslinux or maybe grub can serve here, or PXE). That is different from normal booting of Linux and would merit documentation, -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu z1aaaa...@coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
