Yeah, I've comlained more than once via official and informal channels to RedHat about this. It's pretty piss-poor for one of the more expensive commercial offerings to be broken as-delivered on s390x. We'll ge migrating to an x86 Satellite in part because of it.
My work-around was building a hacked-up noarch-identified version of the syslinux RPM.
"Scott Henson" shenson@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:01:38 -0500, Justin Sherrill jsherril@redhat.com wrote: Cobbler has 'cobbler get-loaders' to do this. It downloads the data off of a fedorapeople page. The big problem with doing cross platform booting is that there is no where else for a x86 machine to get ppc or s390 binaries and vice versus. So, the get-loaders command was created to get around this problem.
I would think that Satellite would want to ship these files in an RPM along with satellite.