Installing a menu configuration

6.18 LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

Use zipl with the -m (--menu) command-line option to install a menu configuration.

To prepare a menu configuration, you need a configuration file that includes at least one menu section or with a default section that supports an automatic menu.

Figure 1. zipl syntax for installing a menu configuration

Notes:

¹ You can change the default configuration file with the ZIPLCONF environment variable.
² You can change the default directory with the BOOT environment variable.

Where:

-m or --menu <menu_name>: specifies the menu that defines the menu configuration in the configuration file.
-c or --config <config_file>: specifies the configuration file where the menu configuration is defined. The default, /etc/zipl.conf, can be changed with the ZIPLCONF environment variable.
-b <bls_dir>: specifies a directory to be searched for files with BLS snippets.
-a or --add-files: adds the kernel image file, parmfile, and initial RAM disk image to the bootmap files in the respective target directories instead of referencing them. Use this option if the files are spread across disks to ensure that the files are available at IPL time. Specifying this option significantly increases the size of the bootmap file that is created in the target directory.

Example

Using the sample configuration file, you could install a menu configuration with:

# zipl -m menu1