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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