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Bug 511983

Summary: [LTC 5.5 FEAT] Provide CMS script for initial IPL under z/VM [201594]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.5CC: bhinson, borgan, hpicht, jjarvis
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Hardware: s390x   
OS: All   
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2009-07-15 20:41:04 UTC 
=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201594]
a. Name of Feature:	Provide CMS script for initial IPL under z/VM
b. Feature Description
After having loaded the three necessary install files (kernel,
  parameter file, initrd) to a VM guest, e.g. via FTP, the user has to
  IPL the initial install process of zLinux. This requires the execution
  of CMS commands, which the user might not be familiar with. Although
  there are in the documentation predefined CMS scripts to setup the VM reader and finally IPL the
zLinux installation, the
  user would still have to bring such a script into his guest.
 
 A script should be provided per enterprise distribution,
  which uses the distro specific
 naming scheme for kernel, parameter file, and initrd. This script
 should be placed in the directory of the distro shipping media
 (DVD/CD/FTP server), where the other three files already reside. This
 way, the user gets relieved from e.g. entering such a script using
 xedit in the CMS environment and can simply download it using FTP
 along with the three other files and then execute it.
 
 The Distros should take such a CMS EXEC from their current documentation and ship it with their
releases.
 
 The corresponding architecture specific installation documentation should be updated accordingly.

History of this bug in 5.4 can be viewed at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475343

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	zSeries
Architectures:
s390x

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Installer: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Request Red Hat development assistance
Category:	zSeries
Request Type:	Installer - Enhancement from Distributor
d. Upstream Acceptance:	No Code Required
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	no
g. Component Version Target:	n/a

3. Business Case
Avoid customer frustation during installation, by just needing to know how to FTP from z/VM (instead
of having to learn how to use z/VM editor).

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978

Technical contact(s):

Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

IBM Manager:
Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2009-07-16 13:48:52 UTC 
Do we really need yet another bug to track this?  I'm fine with just moving 475343 to 5.5 so we can continue to use the original bug (with all its history and detail) to track the same problem.
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-08-03 11:51:10 UTC 
------- Comment From mgrf.com 2009-08-03 07:49 EDT-------
Per agreement with John,

Tracking this feature request with the old RHEL 5.4 request - deferred to 5.5
to have done discussions included
LTC 50341 - RHBZ  475343  [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Provide CMS script for initial IPL under z/VM [201594]

Closing this new created request  as DUP

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50341 ***
Comment 3 John Jarvis 2009-08-03 13:44:29 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 475343 ***