Re: [gentoo-user] Booting minimal installer ISO on rx4640 and rx2660 fails

I've also seen such behavior when i've burnt a cd image to a dvd.  also the installer may have trouble with your' particular hardware.  what burner are you using and how is it connected (i.e. mother boards sata/pata interfaces, external usb, etc.).  also what motherboard are you using?  Have you burned a cd image to a dvd (sometimes that works, sometimes not, sometimes partially).  You might alternatively try to install off of a thumb drive with the appropriate image (again sometimes you can cheat, using an image meant for optical media written to a thumb drive and again, sometimes ok sometimes disaster).

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17. Aug 2017 03:36 by frank.scheiner@×××.de:


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to boot my Itanium gear with the current minimal installer ISO [1] on CDROM but so far had no success at all. I also tested the oldest of the minimal installer ISOs [2] still available, also without success. For both my rx4640 and rx2660 I get the following output when trying to boot from the internal DVD (its access LED lights up shortly):
>
> ```
> Loading.: Internal Bootable DVD
> Load of Internal Bootable DVD failed: Not Found
> Press any key to continue
> ```
>
> I've burned these ISOs with Brasero 3.10.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 and I can access the contents of the CDROMs there too. I could even extract the included kernel and initrd (and include the squashfs image) - following and slightly adapting the howto on [3] for Itanium - and boot them, but sadly couldn't get to the point where I could start the installation process. I either did something wrong during the extraction and creation process of initrd and initrd plus squashfs image, or the howto does not work as intended for Itanium machines.
>
> The machines seem to work correctly using a Debian Wheezy based NFS root and were also able to boot the Debian 7.11 installer ISO on DVD for Itanium without an issue though, hence I don't think this is a problem of the machines or their DVD drives.
>
> Does anybody have an idea, what could be wrong? And can somebody confirm that these ISOs - when burned to CDROMs - work on rx4640 or rx2660 or similar machines?
>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
> [1]: > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20170810/install-ia64-minimal-20170810.iso
>
> [2]: > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20170627/install-ia64-minimal-20170627.iso
>
> [3]: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_alternatives#Diskless_install_using_PXE_and_kernel.2Finitrd.2Fsquashfs_from_the_LiveCD