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[Rishi Misra <rishi.investigate@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dimitri,

This indeed helps a lot.  I'll see if there are workarounds in BOSH/grub
context.


On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov <
dimitri.ledkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Rishi Misra
> <rishi.investigate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Cross-post: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/294620
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am trying to use BOSH deployment tool and it requires grub/grub2
> package.  However this package is missing for 16.04 s390x arch.  Please let
> me know when this will be available and if there are any workarounds
> (manual build) available.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> I'm not at all familiar with BOSH tool. s390x does not use grub nor
> grub2 at all. Instead it uses zipl from s390-tools to prepare bootmap.
> On ubuntu this is essentially integrated into update-initramfs hooks,
> and thus no special invocations are needed at all.
>
> Depending on what BOSH does, it might need to learn to skip grub2 on
> s390x, and/or learn to write out /etc/zipl.conf and run zipl command
> and in general learn s390x boot semantics.
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dimitri.
>