Re: booting cd on a snake

[Thibaut VARÈNE <varenet@esiee.fr>]

Le vendredi, 10 oct 2003, à 10:03 Europe/Paris, Riccardo Mottola a 
écrit :

> on 10/10/03 5:39 AM, Grant Grundler at grundler@parisc-linux.org wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I grabbed the palinux-2.4.22-pa9-20030924-netinst.iso and burned the 
> > > iso
> > > on a disk (I tried it from two different programs).
> >
> > Which programs? Which options?
> > We should probably add a "how-to burn CDs on Windows" link to
> > the FAQ at www.parisc-linux.org and/or debian/ports/hppa page.
> Well, I burned them under macos-x, since there is my burner. I used 
> once
> Apple's utility (Disk Copy) and just burned the iso. The second 
> attempt was
> to use Toast. It has no apparent parameters when burning from an iso. I
> verified the disk through coparison ant it was said ok. With the 
> previous
> version of Toast I burned iso's for the most various architectures and
> distirbutions (from sparc to PPC and whatever) and never had problems. 
> Can
> there be particulars problems?
> I could try attaching my old SCSI burner to OpenBSD/sparc and try from 
> there
> using cdrtools, never did that, but if you think the problem is 
> there...
>
> Ah obviously I checked MD5 and it matches, so I would exclude having 
> d/l the
> image in the wrong mode or such.

OK ISO burning problem eliminated (i do burn ISOs from macosX 
sometimes, no
problem).
FYI, if you want to use cdrtools from macosx you can, there's a port 
pkg of
xcdroast (assuming you have XDarwin), and cdrtools builds on macosx 
anyway.
> > We use PALO as boot loader.
> > Older firmware might say "ISL" when listing boot devices.
> Yes, that is what I get when I insert the hp-ux cd in the drive.

What CD drive are you using? AFAICR, 720 doesn't come with a CD drive...
Have you already been able to boot from CD with that particular drive?
Some CD devices aren't properly recognized from the boot admin 
interface.
> I suppose gentoo uses the same method as yours to boot (only their ISL 
> file
> is in the root and not in a directory) and I can't get their CD to boot
> either.
>
> > > Any 7x0 users out there? experiences?
yes, it works (slowly), assuming you have a decent amount of RAM though.

BTW, a good starting point is:
http://pateam.esiee.fr/doc.html


Thibaut VARENE
The PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/