From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336F482B for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:09:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4C974B00C; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:08:25 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:08:25 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: rpengelly Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] opening initial console Message-ID: <20010706180825.A23509@linuxcare.com> References: <000d01c10626$ac7139f0$0f809b8e@ati.stlawrencec.on.ca> <20010706153937.Z23509@linuxcare.com> <001901c1062d$a08091c0$0f809b8e@ati.stlawrencec.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <001901c1062d$a08091c0$0f809b8e@ati.stlawrencec.on.ca>; from rpengelly@ati.stlawrencec.on.ca on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:09:17AM -0400 List-ID: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:09:17AM -0400, rpengelly wrote: > I'm confused about booting from a lifimage. How do we go about this. Note: > we are unbale to install via CDROM because of harware issues so we are > relying on a network install. palo can take a kernel image and wrap stuff round it to make a bootable image. That is called a lifimage. You managed to boot from the network, so you must have booted a lifimage format file. You must have put that lifimage somewhere that bootp/rbootd could find it when asked by your parisc box. On the CD is a file called lifimage, in dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/lifimage (or similar). Simply copy that file to your bootp server, placing it and naming it as you did for whatever you booted last time. Then tell your parisc box to boot from the network. Don't interact with the IPL to modify any kernel boot parameters - it should all "just work". You should get the installer release notes page displayed, hit return and you are in to the main installer menu. Once you have the system installed and using palo to boot from disk, palo uses plain kernel image files, not lifimages. Those live in /boot/vmlinuz or similar, and should be set up for you during the install. Hope that helps, ask again if not. Richard