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Re: Bad LIF Image Error on Install for C8000 and J6750



On 09/02/2014 04:25 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Helge Deller wrote:
In the meantime I inserted the same CD into one of my rp5470 machines and
tried to boot it, and it failed like this:
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 2
IPL error: bad LIF magic.
Error Reading IPL
[...]
So, I assume that if a HP machine has a DVD-drive, you need to burn the
image to a DVD-disc.
This is quite strange. The SCSI commands for reading CD and DVD
are the same. (ATAPI at IDE transmits SCSI commands too.)
About any DVD drive can read CD.
Yeah - I thought the same.
I just tested the CD disc in the DVD drive of my C8000 and it booted ok from it.

Drive type   : vendor 'HL-DT-ST' product 'DVD-ROM GDR8163B' revision '0B26'
Profile      : 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile      : 0x0008 (CD-ROM) (current)

Nevertheless, the CD-disc has problems in the DVD-drive of my rp5470.
I can look up the DVD-drive details tomorrow.

Btw, in my C3700 I have a IDE CD-ROM: CD-532E-B

After booting to Linux:

Can you check-read the CD-RW by the DVD drive ?
For debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso this could be done by

   cdrom=/dev/sr0
   imagefile=debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso
   size=57583

   dd if="$cdrom" bs=2048 count=$size | diff - "$imagefile"

or

   dd if="$cdrom" bs=2048 count=$size | md5sum


What SCSI profiles does the DVD drive report ?
This inquiry needs rw-permission at the drive device.
I assume dev/sr0.

   xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0 -list_profiles

I expect it to report

   Drive type   : vendor '...' product '...' revision '...'
   Profile      : 0x0010 (DVD-ROM)
   Profile      : 0x0008 (CD-ROM)

Vendor and product name would be helpful for googling.

See above. More details tomorrow.

Helge


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