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Re: IA64 bootable CD



On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:23:49AM -0500, Tallapragada, Balakrishna M wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I tried without boot-load-size option and it
> still fails. When I have a debian installation CD in the drive, it
> always maps to fs0. But with my iso image on the CD, I do not see the
> cdrom drive being mapped.

Is your ISO image fairly small, and available for download somewhere?
I might find time to have a look at it.

Richard


> Thanks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Hirst [mailto:rhirst@linuxcare.com] 
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: Tallapragada, Balakrishna M
> Cc: dann frazier; debian-ia64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: IA64 bootable CD
> 
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:19:10PM -0500, Tallapragada, Balakrishna M
> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for your pointer. I followed the link and finally found
> the
> > following link for mkautoinstallcd script which is part of systemImage
> > suite:
> >
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/systemimager/systemimager/sbin/mka
> > utoinstallcd?annotate=1.17
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I collected the required things from the script and did the following
> > with no luck. Hope you can tell me where I am going wrong [ I am doing
> > the following steps on a ia32 system] :
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 1.    mkdir cd_files. Copied the following files into cd_files
> directory
> > 
> >  (a) vmlinux (ia64 kernel )(b) elilo.efi from the ia64 box (c) the
> > elilo.conf with the entries - default=Linux
> > 
> > image=vmlinux
> > 
> >   lable=Linux
> > 
> >   read-only
> > 
> > 2.    mkdir boot ; mkdir ./tmnt
> > 
> > 3.    dd if=/dev/zero of=boot/siboot.img bs=1024k count=10
> > 
> > 4.    /sbin/mkdosfs boot/siboot.img
> > 
> > 5.    mount -t vfat -o loop boot/siboot.img ./tmnt
> > 
> > 6.    cp -av cd_files/* ./tmnt
> > 
> > 7.    umount ./tmnt
> > 
> > 8.    mkisofs -J -r -T -v -pad -b boot/siboot.img -c boot/boot.catalog
> > -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 1 -o cdrom.img .
> 
> I see that "-boot-load-size 1" in the systemimager script you referenced
> above, but I don't understand why it is there.  Can you try again
> without that parameter?
> 
> mkisofs -J -r -T -v -pad -b boot/siboot.img -c boot/boot.catalog
> -no-emul-boot -o cdrom.img .
> 
> I assume the ISO content looks ok if you mount it somewhere - i.e. has a
> directory /boot with the siboot.img in it?
> 
> > 9.    Burned iso image 'cdrom.img' to the CD on my windows box.
> > 
> > 10.Rebooted the ia64 system with the cdrom in the cdrom drive
> > 
> > 11.at the EFI Boot Manager prompt, selected the CDROM option to boot
> it
> > off the CD. But I see the message that says that the loading is
> failed.
> > 
> > 12.Next selected the EFI shell and at the prompt typed 'map'
> > 
> > 13.I don't see the CD-ROM drive being mapped to fs0.
> 
> Wont necessarily be fs0, but should be there as fs0 or fs1, etc.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I appreciate any kind of pointers/the things that I am missing to make
> > it bootable on ia64. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Mohan
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dann frazier [mailto:dannf@dannf.org] 
> > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:49 PM
> > To: debian-ia64@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: IA64 bootable CD
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:40:11PM -0500, Tallapragada, Balakrishna M
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Can any one send some pointers as to how to make a linux ia64
> bootable
> > 
> > > CD ? I need to do some minimal thingsl like booting the ia64 kernel
> on
> > 
> > > CD and mounting a remote file system. Appreciate any kind of
> response
> > in
> > 
> > > this regard.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2003/debian-ia64-200312/msg00010.htm
> > l
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
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