[Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[Tim Riker]

What is the eli command to mount the CD as / and boot?
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Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[Goutham Rao]

It will depend on your system configuration... if all you have on IDE is
the ls120 and CD, then I think the CD would be /dev/hdc so you should be
able to use
"eli <vmlinux> root=/dev/hdc"

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tim Riker wrote:

> What is the eli command to mount the CD as / and boot?
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Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:41:15 -0800 (PST), Goutham Rao <goutham.rao@intel.com> said:

  Goutham> It will depend on your system configuration... if all you
  Goutham> have on IDE is the ls120 and CD, then I think the CD would
  Goutham> be /dev/hdc so you should be able to use "eli <vmlinux>
  Goutham> root=/dev/hdc"

Don't forget to specify the "rescue" option---otherwise, the boot will
get stuck halfway through.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to document
this option in README.IA-64 because I didn't know if the CD-ROM is
actually bootable until we had the master (and then it was too late to
update the README and make a new master...).

	--david

Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[Tim Riker]

Note: I can't seem to reach MX hpl.hp.com from here?

ahhh rescue. Didn't think of that one.
 
Doesn't the included CD read CD-RW, or at least CD-R? Couln't you have
tested with one of those? That's what we do here and then we ship the
CD-R to mastering.

Also /etc/fstab has /dev/hdc1 in it. ;-( should just be /dev/hdc

David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:41:15 -0800 (PST), Goutham Rao <goutham.rao@intel.com> said:
> 
>   Goutham> It will depend on your system configuration... if all you
>   Goutham> have on IDE is the ls120 and CD, then I think the CD would
>   Goutham> be /dev/hdc so you should be able to use "eli <vmlinux>
>   Goutham> root=/dev/hdc"
> 
> Don't forget to specify the "rescue" option---otherwise, the boot will
> get stuck halfway through.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to document
> this option in README.IA-64 because I didn't know if the CD-ROM is
> actually bootable until we had the master (and then it was too late to
> update the README and make a new master...).
> 
>         --david
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Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 12:06:16 -0700, Tim Riker <TimR@CalderaSystems.com> said:

  Tim> Doesn't the included CD read CD-RW, or at least CD-R? Couln't
  Tim> you have tested with one of those? That's what we do here and
  Tim> then we ship the CD-R to mastering.

<RANT>

Gee, could just _someone_ at least consider saying thanks for having a
bootable CD in the first place?

I'm getting a little tired of hearing all sorts of complaints about
not having a perfect CD.  If I hadn't worked all night Thursday/Friday
before LWE and Mike Balma and Lorraine Bartlett hadn't pulled all
kinds of strings at HP with the CD manufacturing, we would not have a
CD at all and you'd be struggling with boot floppies instead.

</RANT>.

Wow, I feel so much better now. ;-)

	--david

Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[Tim Riker]

Whimper....

Thank you, thank you, thank you! for putting together this CD! This is a
huge step forward! I didn't mean to be ungrateful at all, I was just
making suggestions. I am VERY pleased with the CD. I am also willing to
help in any way I can. I'll be at IDF next week. Hope to meet some of
you folks there.

An the other hand, feel free to rant if helps. ;-)

David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 12:06:16 -0700, Tim Riker <TimR@CalderaSystems.com> said:
> 
>   Tim> Doesn't the included CD read CD-RW, or at least CD-R? Couln't
>   Tim> you have tested with one of those? That's what we do here and
>   Tim> then we ship the CD-R to mastering.
> 
> <RANT>
> 
> Gee, could just _someone_ at least consider saying thanks for having a
> bootable CD in the first place?
> 
> I'm getting a little tired of hearing all sorts of complaints about
> not having a perfect CD.  If I hadn't worked all night Thursday/Friday
> before LWE and Mike Balma and Lorraine Bartlett hadn't pulled all
> kinds of strings at HP with the CD manufacturing, we would not have a
> CD at all and you'd be struggling with boot floppies instead.
> 
> </RANT>.
> 
> Wow, I feel so much better now. ;-)
> 
>         --david
> 
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Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-)

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 12:31:50 -0700, Tim Riker <TimR@CalderaSystems.com> said:

  Tim> I was just making suggestions.

As far as CD-RW and DVD read capability goes: I have no idea if it
does.  Not something I can test easily.

  Tim> An the other hand, feel free to rant if helps. ;-)

Yep, it did! ;-)

On a related note: I actually had to hack mkisofs to make it possible to
install an El-Torito image bigger than 2.88MB.  I'm sure I didn't do it
entirely correctly, so this is something that should be looked into.

Also, if you use a recent mkisofs, no hacking will be necessary.
Instead, there is now an option that let's you write "harddisk"-typed
boot images (sorry, I forgot the option name, but you'll find it by
searching for El Torito in the cdrecord man page).  This will take
some fiddling and experimenting to get right, I assume.

	--david