Re: ia64 boot failure - no kernel

[Aaron Brashears <aaronb@lindenlab.com>]

Hi there. I downloaded the iso you suggested, which also failed in the 
same way when attempting to boot the same way.

However, after examination of the contents of boot.img, I thought it 
might be a good idea to try passing conf files from the bios boot 
loader. I configured the bios to pass 'elilo.conf' and it successfully 
booted. Yay!

I've reached parted, and I'm learning how to use it right now. Thank you 
for the help. :)



Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:48:40PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote:
>
> > I downloaded, burned, and ran sarge-ia64-netinst.iso, but with no luck. 
> > On boot, the box lands in an 'EFI Boot Manager' which allows boot device 
> > selection. I point it at the cd (named 'cdrom2' in my configuration) 
> > and tell the boot manager to boot from there, and get:
> >
> > Loading.: cdrom2
> > Starting: cdrom2
> > ELILO
> > elilo.c(line 70):Kernel file  not found
> > Start of cdrom2 failed: Load Error
>
>
> Looks like you told elilo to load a kernel called 'cdrom2'?  I'd
> normally do something like  'fs2:' to switch to device 'fs2', and then
> 'elilo' which causes it to load elilo.conf from that dir.
>
>
> > I got the sarge iso from:
> > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ia64/daily/
> >
> >
> > Is there any further information I could provide which would help with 
> > debugging the ia64 boot for sarge?
>
>
> Try an image from
>
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/netinst/ia64/
>
> Those images have fixes to the bootimage layout, which should mean they
> can be booted rather more easily.
>
> Richard