RE: IA64 bootable CD
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.
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
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