Re: CD boot failuer - update

[provinsd@telusplanet.net (Dean Allen Provins)]

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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