Running zipl in command-line mode

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

In command-line mode, you specify the details about the boot configuration to be created as arguments for the zipl command.

As shown in Figure 1, there are two sources of kernel parameters for zipl in command-line mode.

Figure 1. Sources of kernel parameters for zipl in command-line mode
The graphic shows two sources: 1. kernel parameter file, 2. command line
In command-line mode, zipl concatenates the kernel parameters in the order:
  1. Parameters that are specified in the kernel parameter file
  2. Parameters that are specified on the command line