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Hi Frank, |
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On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 11:36:41 Frank Scheiner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer |
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> ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the |
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> oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without |
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> success. For both my rx4640 and rx2660 I get the following output when |
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> trying to boot from the internal DVD (its access LED lights up shortly): |
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> ``` |
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> Loading.: Internal Bootable DVD |
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> Load of Internal Bootable DVD failed: Not Found |
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> Press any key to continue |
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> ``` |
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This to me seems like faulty or incompatible media. Did you check the hash of |
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the burned DVD to see if it was not corrupted during download/burn? |
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NOTE: You'll need the size of the ISO image which you can read from your hard |
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disk and then feed to md5sum; e.g. |
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dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=xxxxxxxx | md5sum |
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> I've burned these ISOs with Brasero 3.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I can |
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> access the contents of the CDROMs there too. I could even extract the |
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> included kernel and initrd (and include the squashfs image) - following |
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> and slightly adapting the howto on [3] for Itanium - and boot them, but |
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> sadly couldn't get to the point where I could start the installation |
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> process. I either did something wrong during the extraction and creation |
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> process of initrd and initrd plus squashfs image, or the howto does not |
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> work as intended for Itanium machines. |
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> The machines seem to work correctly using a Debian Wheezy based NFS root |
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> and were also able to boot the Debian 7.11 installer ISO on DVD for |
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> Itanium without an issue though, hence I don't think this is a problem |
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> of the machines or their DVD drives. |
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Yes, this proves there's nothing wrong with the drives. |
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> Does anybody have an idea, what could be wrong? And can somebody confirm |
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> that these ISOs - when burned to CDROMs - work on rx4640 or rx2660 or |
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> similar machines? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Frank |
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Sorry, I don't have access to such gear, but my money is on a corrupt DVD, or |
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incompatible DVD type (e.g. DVD+/-R) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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