Re: CD boot failuer - update
Hi Dean,
You need to tell the CD writter to put the iso image on the CD without
putting a filesystem around it. How you do that depends on the burning
software. Some lame software might not even do it. [[Trying hard not to
say anything nasty about NT.]]
If you want to do a network install you have to do the following:
Setup a dhcp server.
Setup up a tftp server.
Put the lifimage from the CD somewhere where the tftp server can get at it.
bo lan the HP machine at the PDC screen.
If ( when ) it fails work out what failed and what to fix.
You can loopback mount the CD image and export it. Then install the base
system via NFS.
I had a few hours of fun getting a network install to work. It's worth doing
just for the experience.
If that seems too much like hard work buy a CD writter.
Regards,
Stephen Day
On Tuesday 16 Oct 2001 4:01 pm, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
> Hello again.
>
> Thanks for your assistance, but (alas), I still require more expert
> insight. As promised last week, I tried again on Monday (yesterday)
> with a new CD "boot disc", but this failed too, as described in the
> following mail message that I forwarded to the person who created the
> CD for me.
>
> Hopefully, a reader will recognize what needs to be done to correctly
> write the CD on an NT workstation (I have no Linux box with a writer
> available).
>
> An alternative that was proposed was to do a network install. I am
> willing to try this, but am not sure which CD image to use - and of
> course, I still need to create the image.
>
> For a network install, is the image named "palinux-0.9.2-install.iso.gz"
> correct? It is smaller than the "iso" image, being sized at 36628046
> bytes.
>
> I look forward to your responses.
>
> Dean
>
> -------------------the problem as it stands on Monday--------------
>
> Rod:
>
> I'm not entirely certain, but I believe that the problem is that the
> image on the CD is NOT a filesystem, but appears as a simple file.
>
> The image is of type:
>
> palinux-0.9.2.iso: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
>
> What is contained in that image is (at the top level) the following:
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 7376 Jun 26 18:35 README
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 522 Jun 19 06:22 README-ISO
> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jul 9 06:18 debian -> ./
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Jul 9 06:18 dists/
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 26624 Jun 28 09:34 iplboot
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 297 Jun 29 20:01 iso.conf
>
> Since the HP firmware is looking for some readable files, but only
> sees "palinux-0.9.2.iso", I believe that the "bad magic" message results:
>
> Trying scsi.3.0
> Boot path initialized
> Attempting to load IPL
>
> IPL error: bad LIF magic
>
> ...does another search for bootable devices...
>
> I suspect that if you cannot "open" the image when writing the CD,
> then NT is not suitable for doing that step. We'll have to find a
> Linux box with a writer.
>
> I'll attempt to confirm these suspicions with the mail list.
>
> Dean
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