Re: amd64-rescue.img & intel Xeon x5650 system
It did not had the valid partition table
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> On Nov 25, 2015, at 4:47 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:33:37AM +0000, aman nangia wrote:
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>> Can below file be used as a bootable image on a usb flash disk to boot a HP Gen7 system with Intel Xeon x5650 CPUs (64bit) on it?
>> "debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-rescue.img" ?
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> The Intel x5650, according to [1], supports the "Intel 64" command set. This is compatible with AMD's 64-bit implementation (as opposed to the Itanium 64-bit command set), so yes, the image should boot.
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> For the image to be bootable from a USB disk, it needs to be a Hybrid image. To check for this, run "/sbin/fdisk -l debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-rescue.img". If the file contains a valid partition table, then you can write the image to your usb device, otherwise you will need to use some sort of conversion tool.
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> [1]: http://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5650-12M-Cache-2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI?q=x5650
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>> Thx
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