| 28 Jun 2024 |
 bl0v3 | but its deffo gonna be a little more complex | 18:10:13 |
| bl0v3 | i honestly just want to make a cdrom or sth | 18:10:27 |
 aleksana (force me to bed after 18:00 UTC) | You can get an example in nixos-generators, but not necessarily using it | 18:10:53 |
| aleksana (force me to bed after 18:00 UTC) | Generating an iso from nixosSystem configuration | 18:11:13 |
| bl0v3 | In reply to @aleksana:mozilla.org
You can get an example in nixos-generators, but not necessarily using it yes but like keep in mind this isn't x86 | 18:11:21 |
| bl0v3 | or arm | 18:11:31 |
| bl0v3 | or sparc | 18:11:33 |
| bl0v3 | its an architecture made specifically for mainframes and few ppl are willing to spend 7 digits on a machine and not have some sort of technicean or stuff | 18:12:12 |
| aleksana (force me to bed after 18:00 UTC) | You may be the first individual I have ever seen who owns a s390x server | 18:12:25 |
| bl0v3 | so there are no easy guides | 18:12:28 |
| bl0v3 | or any | 18:12:32 |
| bl0v3 | In reply to @aleksana:mozilla.org
You may be the first individual I have ever seen who owns a s390x server i mean its old these days | 18:12:55 |
| bl0v3 | 2008 | 18:12:58 |
| aleksana (force me to bed after 18:00 UTC) | Although I've thought about that like "If I become very rich in the future, I will definitely buy a server like a double-door refrigerator and put it at home" | 18:13:23 |
| aleksana (force me to bed after 18:00 UTC) | So I can only say good luck | 18:13:35 |
| bl0v3 | but yeah why would one own this shit realistically, its weights over a ton and eats power | 18:13:43 |
| bl0v3 | so i want to make it slightly less useless by putting nix on it for the lulz | 18:14:10 |
| bl0v3 | Pr wise its also interesting. Cause traditionally netbsd folk used to brag about it running everywhere | 18:15:28 |
| bl0v3 | so running nixos would be funny i figure | 18:15:40 |
| bl0v3 | im sorta just looking for the simplest way i can generate a boot spec so i can refactor the extlinux bootloader targets like i did for some ebedded things | 18:16:27 |
| bl0v3 | pxe boot seems possible too but like i do want a persistant install | 18:16:58 |
 7c6f434c | Wait these are mainframes so the bottom hypervisor is always from IBM and you run stuff in VMs, right? | 18:17:54 |
| bl0v3 | In reply to @7c6f434c:nitro.chat
Wait these are mainframes so the bottom hypervisor is always from IBM and you run stuff in VMs, right? i have no clue | 18:18:10 |
| 7c6f434c | The bright side is that there is something https://wiki.ubuntu.com/S390X | 18:18:28 |
| bl0v3 | its sorta what im trying to figure out | 18:18:28 |
| 7c6f434c | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_IBM_Z says that mainframes mean everything has to be somewhat virtualised | 18:18:51 |
| bl0v3 | In reply to @7c6f434c:nitro.chat
The bright side is that there is something https://wiki.ubuntu.com/S390X gives me a 503 | 18:19:27 |
| 7c6f434c |
The boot loader for the s390x architecture is "zipl" (z initial program loader).
| 18:20:39 |
| bl0v3 | well i gotta go work on something else now but i can as it seems build a minimal system configuration already , though it would be useful to build some thing i can test in qemu before putting it on there | 18:20:55 |
| 7c6f434c | Loads for me but very slowly | 18:21:02 |
