September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
12h 30m
English
book
Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions
by Michael MacIsaac, Ronald Annuss, Wolfgang Engel, Chris Gombola, Timothy Nunes, Mark Post, Don Stubbs, Egon Terwedow, Craig Vernon
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5.1 General installation considerations
Note the following considerations in relation to the installation task.
5.1.1 Boot file processing
In order to boot the starter system through which the installation will be
accomplished, three files are placed on the boot device in the following order:
1. Installation kernel image
2. Parameter file
3. RAMdisk image
For an LPAR or native installation, these three files are either copied to tape or
emulated tape, or staged on the HMC from CD #1.
When booting, a hardware-generated read to the boot device will transfer the first
block of data into storage, and execution control will pass to the first byte in the
data block. This is the initial record in the
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