> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffo [mailto:jeffo@pop.hsbc.com.br]
> Hello all!
> I hope this is the right place for posting such a question:
>
> - I´ve tried MANY times  (5) burning an PA-RISC image to a
> bootable CD.
> Couldn´t make my system
> boot from the CD though...the image I´m talking about is this one:
> http://pateam.esiee.fr/cd-images/palinux-0.9.3.iso

Other replies indicate how to test the image.

>
> I have a 712/60 HP station, with an external SCSI CD-rom
> drive. The drive is
> at ID "scsi.3.0".
> I do the boot search after the POST routine, it finds my SCSI
> drive, its
> brand and everything else.

What brand is it? Run-time, there are no special requirements.

>
> When I try to boot from the CD the station simply does
> nothing. It tryes to boot and returns
> to the BOOT_ADMIN screen. ONCE I could get a message like "loading the
> stuff, etc....OPS, KERNEL something".
> And only ONCE...in one of the first CDs.

Boot time, the HP bootloader requires 2KByte block size. Most (if not all) CDRom players use 512Byte blocksize by default. Try to figure out if your CDRom can do a 2KByte blocksize.

>
> I did an extensive search on the Internet regarding this
> subject, and used all hints found for
> the burning software (yes, I´m burning on XP, unfortunately
> all linuxes I´ve found doens´t
> have CD writers)...used Nero 5.5, CDRWin 4.0B and Blindwrite.
> None of them seem to burn this image
> correctly. And I say that with the knowledge after burning many, many
> applications, games, etc
> onto CD-R. Protected or not. For AIX, for Windows, for Solaris.
> Weird...

As above, most likely, the image is not the problem, it's the blocksize the drive provides to the system.

>
> The simptoms are:
>
> - If I load the CD on a windows machine, everything seems to be fine,
> DESPITE all filenames being in CAPS... (bad sign?)

iso9660 is a single-case (that's the all-caps) and versioned (that's the ;1) filesystem.

> - On the 712/60 it won´t boot.
> - After booting into HP-UX, if I try to mount the CD it takes
> a looong time and then the OS finally mounts it, but all filenames are
> capitalised AND SOMETIMES, the ";1" suffix is appended to every filename. I´ve seen
> something about that on Nero, but on tabs that you simply  cannot change.
> (something like "doesn´t append ;1 on...")
> - I contacted a friend and co-worker which is a "Linux" guy,
> but he wasn´t willing to help much..
> - Things that I´ve read on the net like "Search the iso or
> the CD for the #8000 sector and see if the MAGIC word is on there (CD001)
> and IT IS in all Cds I´ve searched.
>
> I am REALLY interested in putting this thing to run up on my HP
> station....but I´m having a hard time...

If you have no success on the CDRom player, try a netboot if you have an other machine around. Check the website for more info. A search key can be "bootp" since that's the network boot protocol.

Success
CBee