Re: zipl fail

[Gerhard Tonn <GerhardTonn@gammatau.de>]

On Sunday 09 February 2003 14:23, Marco wrote:
> I have made a 'cross install' from Conectiva Linux to
> Debian kernel-image-2.4.17-s390 ( hardware: s/390 G3,
> no z-serie, no VM ).
> The installation process was fine, but the ipl process
> failed.
> What's the magic to make zipl work ?
>
> - The zipl line command was:
> # zipl -p /boot/parmfile -t /boot/zip
>
> - My /boot/parmfile was:
> root=/dev/dasda1 ro noinitrd dasd=101
>
> - zipl generated the following zipl.conf in /etc:
> [defaultboot]
> default=debian
>
> [debian]
> target=/boot
> image=/vmlinuz
> parmfile=/boot/parmfile
>
>

Debian uses devfs, the parmfile should look like 

root=/dev/dasd/0101/part1 ro noinitrd dasd=101

Gerhard