On Sep 10, 2007, at 11:27 PM, GaryR wrote:
Well, unless someone comes to my rescue, I think I am officially giving up on getting Debian up and running on s390. I cam across a poster mentioning there are "depressing little Debian s390" developers. I understand this now. I also understand free software comes alot from free time of individuals, but what I have a problem with is those that are making profits from selling CD's with broken installers. I downloaded the (also "free") CentOS and it booted right away. Should have did this a week ago.
I tried coming to your rescue in private; you apparently did not read my message. I'll repeat it.
You mentioned you're running under z/VM.Get your kernel image, your parmfile, and your initrd (download them binary, recfm F, lrecl 80) and put them in your reader in that order, with nothing else in your reader, and IPL from the reader. Do a search for DEBIAN EXEC, which is a little bit of Rexx that automates this process, if you like.
That's all there is to it. The procedure is the same as it's always been for Linux on S/390.
Adam