Re: booting cd on a snake
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:03:52AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 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?
There shouldn't be. I expect any process that works for sparc/ppc ISOs
to also work for parisc ISOs.
> Ah obviously I checked MD5 and it matches, so I would exclude having d/l the
> image in the wrong mode or such.
good
> > 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.
ok - good to know.
> 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.
Well, I'd expect that since gentoo are likely using palo as well
to generate the LIF-like image for the ISO.
Sounds like 7x0 firmware wants more on the LIF-like image than
palo is generating. Not sure we'll be able to fix that. You might
try some of the older images (Debian 3.0r0) just to see if
that was a recently introduced bug.
The only alternative I can suggest is attempting to net boot/install.
There are "lifimage" files available that can be fed via rbootp (IIRC)
to the 7x0 workstation. Perhaps someone else can suggest a HOW-TO
for setting that up.
grant
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