From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Venkatesh Ramamurthy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:10:06 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Getting a copy of the CD Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org did u try booting from efi shell like these goto the cdrom filesystem eg fs0: fs0:\> eli vmlinux root=ROOT rescue where ROOT= the device node for IDE CDROM ... say eg /dev/hdb if its primary slave then you have to fdisk the hard disk , create partitions and copy all files & directories manually from the cdrom into the newly created partitions.... create one partition as FAT, so that EFI SHELL can see it . copy the contents of /boot directory into this FAT partition... next time you boot the system go to the FAT filesystem that you have created fs0:\> eli vmlinux root=/dev/hda1 where /dev/hda1 is the primary master HDD Venkatesh American Megatrends Inc On Thursday, February 24, 2000 11:58 AM, Eugene Dale Tyler [SMTP:edt@world.std.com] wrote: | Hello, | | I work for a company that makes a hardware debugger targeted at | IA-32 and IA-64 systems. | | We have a Lion Debug Chasis and are looking to load linux on it | so that we can get the IA-64 debugging environment up to snuff. | I am the firmare engineer responsible for the code that controls | the IA-64 platform and a Linux fan. So, it is in my interest to | get Linux running on the platform prior to Win2K ;->> | | I downloaded the sources from kernel.org and the tool chain from | Cygnus, but am going through the same pain as some others I see here. | If the CD from Linux World will work enough to get to a shell, then | we can make sure our VHPT and other code is running well. | | I can be reached at 949/360-1717 or by e-mail. | | Thanks in advance for any help you all can provide. | | Regards, | Dale | PGP Public Key Fingerprint = 41 88 59 D9 B2 A7 27 99 F7 EB 1F 0E AD CA F1 26 | | | | | _______________________________________________ | Linux-IA64 mailing list | Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org | http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64