debian-cd-clone

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Philipp Kern 35bbcda84e Load the s390x initrd at 0x01000000 when using the ins loader. Currently the ins loader (mostly HMC loading into an LPAR) only supports kernels up to 8 MiB. The jessie kernel has 11 MiB, which does not fit and hence gets its tail overwritten by the initrd (root.bin) loaded at this address. This change bumps the load address to 16 MiB, which should allow for some more growth of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>		2015-11-13 00:21:34 +00:00
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README.boot	Drop the d390oco* files.	2015-11-13 00:21:19 +00:00
d390.ins	Load the s390x initrd at 0x01000000 when using the ins loader.	2015-11-13 00:21:34 +00:00
d390.tdf	Start stretch development	2015-04-27 17:14:26 +01:00

README.boot

About the S/390 installation CD
===============================

It is possible to "boot" the installation system off this CD using
the files provided in the /boot directory.

Although you can boot the installer from this CD, the installation
itself is *not* actually done from the CD. Once the initrd is loaded,
the installer will ask you to configure your network connection and
uses the network-console component to allow you to continue the
installation over SSH. The rest of the installation is done over the
network: all installer components and Debian packages are retrieved
from a mirror.


Tip for users of the Hercules emulator
--------------------------------------
If you want to ipl the installer off this CD, mount it on the host
system (e.g. on /media/cdrom) and enter the following in the Hercules
management console:
   ipl /media/cdrom/boot/d390.ins