On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:15:27 -0800 (PST) Anoop Chandran <anoop_chandran_79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading the default RH 7.2 > kernel avaialable for s390. > I've downloaded the latest 2.4.24 kernel, which i need > to compile and install. > > while looking for any pointers in this regard,I came > across ur post in RH-s390. I'm cc-ing this back to the list as you should've done. And try to spel "your" correctly, too. > However, the post describes only the compilation > instructions. > > I would like to know how to install this newly > compiled kernel and start my linux image to use the > same. It's only a little different from a regular Linux kernel installation. Key differences are: 1. Image in arch/s390/boot/image is used (uncompressed) 2. /etc/zipl.conf is used instead of /etc/lilo.conf A useful trick when playing with kernels on s390 is to use several DASDs to boot several zipl.conf-s, using zipl -c foo.conf. This allows experimenting under z/VM without ever booting CMS, and FTP-ing into CMS is a royal pain. This is very important, because your first kernel is likely to be broken in some regard. If you overwrite the one and only /etc/zipl.conf, you're screwed. > Also, is it required that any patch (from ibm/redhat) > be applied to the kernel source before compiling it on > s390 system ? Possibly. Depends if you run an application which requires some extension. I would just try running it as-is, it should be good enough. I do not remember if 2.4.9-38 includes anything that was generally useful or necessary (for a mainframe). IBM post updates to DeveloperWorks website and they are notoriously poor at feeding them to Marcelo. You might want to check those, but I think they mostly concern with new hardware support, such as zfcp. -- Pete _______________________________________________ Redhat-s390-list mailing list Redhat-s390-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-s390-list
