From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Riker Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 06:35:30 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] CD intructions. Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The CD David put together needs a doc update. Could we put something up on the web site? Here's a short howto: Boot your system with the cd in the drive. At the EFI prompt type (note that "rescue" is missing from the docs: eli vmlinux root=/dev/hda rescue Log in as root (no password) and fdisk your drive: fdisk /dev/sda create a dos (fat16) partition (/dev/sda1) for later use by EFI create an ext2 filesystem for your root (/dev/sda2) create a swap partition (/dev/sda4) and format them: mke2fs /dev/sda2 mkdosfs /dev/sda1 mkswap /dev/sda4 Now mount them using an existing directory and copy over the cd mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/cdrom cd / cp -a README.IA-64 bin boot dev etc etc.simple home \ lib log root sbin tmp usr var /mnt/cdrom umount /mnt/cdrom mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrom/ cp /boot/* /mnt/cdrom/ umount /mnt/cdrom Now you should be ready to reboot off the hard drive. Take the CD out and reboot. The from the EFI prompt type: eli vmlinux root=/dev/sda2 I have not tested these exact procedures, but I will. I promised someone at the show I'd write this up. Hope it helps. ;-) Now could someone (Mike?) write up a simple procedure for the development CD? Also Mike mentioned there were native ia64 toolchain binaries around? Anyone know where these are? -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.