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Booting and Boot Managers
8.9 S/390, zSeries: The Boot Loader ZIPL
Once the system is installed on your DASD, you need to write initial infor-
mation for the IPL from disk, such as the location of the kernel image and a
parameter line. This is done by means of the tool ZIPL, which retrieves this
information from the command line or a configuration file.
8.9.1 For Kernel Version 2.6.x
The syntax of ZIPL is as follows:
zipl [options] [configuration]
Options:
-h or --help prints this information
-c <CONFIG-FILE> or --config=<CONFIG-FILE>
<CONFIG-FILE> specifies the config file to be used.
This option overrides the environment variable
ZIPLCONF.
The following options override settings in the configuration file. hARGi
indicates a required argument. [ARG] shows an optional argument.
-t <DIRECTORY> or --target=<DIRECTORY>
hDIRECTORYi specifies the target directory where zipl installs some
files needed for the IPL process.
-i <IMAGE[,ADDRESS]> or --image=<IMAGE[,ADDRESS]>
hIMAGEi specifies the file name of the bootable image. [ADDRESS]
specifies the address where the image will be loaded in the memory.
<RAMDISK[,ADDRESS]> or --ramdisk=<RAMDISK[,ADDRESS]>
hRAMDISKi specifies the file name of the RAM disk to load.
[ADDRESS] specifies the address where the RAM disk will be loaded
in the memory.
<PARMFILE[,ADDRESS]> or --parmfile=<PARMFILE[,ADDRESS]>
hPARMFILEi specifies the file name of the parm file to load.
[ADDRESS] specifies the address where the parm file will be loaded
in the memory.
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