[Bug 1892441] Re: "No zIPL section in IPL2 record" error when emulating Debian 10.5.0 on s390x

[Thomas Huth]

As far as I know, the Debian CD ISO images are not bootable on s390x
(they do not contain boot information according to the El-Torrito
standard). Please open a bug against Debian instead if you want to have
that changed. So far, you have to boot here manually instead (see
http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/blog/qemu/2017/12/19/install-fedora.html
for some more information).


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       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  "No zIPL section in IPL2 record" error when emulating Debian 10.5.0 on
  s390x

Status in QEMU:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I want to emulate Debian 10.5.0 for the s390x architecture on an
  Ubuntu x86_64 host.

  The Debian image is downloaded from the following link:
  
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/s390x/iso-cd/debian-10.5.0-s390x-netinst.iso

  Using the latest QEMU version 5.1.0, the Debian image is emulated using the 
given command:
  qemu-system-s390x -boot d -m 4096 -hda debian.qcow -cdrom 
debian-10.5.0-s390x-netinst.iso -nographic

  Running the command causes the output below:

      LOADPARM=[        ]
      Using virtio-blk.
      Using guessed DASD geometry.
      Using ECKD scheme (block size  4096), CDL
      
      ! No zIPL section in IPL2 record. !

  Using exactly the same qemu command above with the Alpine 3.12 image
  for s390x ran successfully without any errors.

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