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Subject: Re: [RFC QEMU PATCH] pc-bios/s390-ccw: Add zipl-like "BOOT_IMAGE=x"
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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:18:21 +0100
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Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Haberland <sth@linux.ibm.com>, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, psundara@redhat.com, =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_H=c3=b6ppner?= <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org

On 16/12/2019 13.15, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
[...]
> I just learned from Peter that booting SCSI also has no BOOT_IMAGE (as
> we have no menu). So Thomas, can you find out the use case for the initial
> bug report.  That might give an indication on how to proceed for all cases.

Apparently this parameter is used by Dracut, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1782026#c4

 Thomas