Re: Reipl support (David Cantrell)

[Steffen Maier <maier linux vnet ibm com>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:00 -0500, Mark Hamzy wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:10 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
>>> Mark, can we just always reboot in linuxrc.s390 and skip the logic to 
> And if you have a failure to install the bootloader on a lot of other
> platforms, you end up booting back into the installer also.  So s390
> isn't special here. 

The reipl support is not about the installation of a bootloader. IMHO,
these are two different things. I agree that in case of failure to
install the bootloader it makes sense to boot into the installer again.
However, reipl configuration may fail due to certain versions of
hardware and software (in case of z/VM) as explained in one of my other
postings. Even in the case of failing reipl config, manual reboot by the
user still works and should be done.

Steffen Maier

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