Re: amd64-rescue.img & intel Xeon x5650 system
On Wednesday 25 November 2015 19:36:03 Aman Nangia wrote:
> It did not had the valid partition table
> > On Nov 25, 2015, at 4:47 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>
wrote:
> >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:33:37AM +0000, aman nangia wrote:
> >>
> >> 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" ?
Why do you want Debian 6??
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > [1]:
> > http://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5650-12M-Cache-
> >2_66-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI?q=x5650
> >
> >> Thx
> >
> > --
> > For more information, please reread.
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