Re: Installing a custom kernel on Debian S/390(wheezy/sid)
On 5 Aug 2012, at 16:55, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Yeah, found that page too. Does step 11 (Install the kernel image
>> package) work pretty much like they say on that page (thinking S/390
>> bootloaders are pretty different from i386 ones)?
>
> The boot loader for s390 is ZIPL (part of the s390-tools package),
> which is similar to LILO in that it uses a list of blocks determined
> at map installer time to load the map file, kernel image, and initial
> RAM file system image into memory. It also is typically configured
> to use symbolic links, as LILO typically is too. The configuration
> file is /etc/zipl.conf. Step 11 is not where you will have your
> problem: Step 10 is. With ZIPL configured to use symbolic links and
> using a custom kernel created by make-kpkg under Squeeze and later
> releases, it will be necessary to install the two hook scripts called
> zy-symlinks. Read that section carefully. You must install these
> hook scripts BEFORE you install the kernel.
Does anyone have any practical examples of this? I don't want to bugger up my system (am of course backuping the DASD's before any install step :)
Sampsa
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