Re: ia64-list Digest, Vol 19, Issue 2

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>    1. creating bootable disks for ia64 machines. (Sriharsha Setty)
>    2. Re: creating bootable disks for ia64 machines. (Doug Chapman)
>    3. Re: creating bootable disks for ia64 machines. (Sriharsha Setty)
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> Subject:
> creating bootable disks for ia64 machines.
> From:
> Sriharsha Setty <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:38:47 +0500
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> Hello all,
>
> I've been wanting to create a bootable disk (based on rhel4) for Itanium
> machines. The command that I use to create ISO images currently is
> something like this:
>
> `mkisofs  -J -r  -T -v  -pad -b images/boot.img  -c boot.catalog
> -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 1  -o <output-file> <input-directory> '
>
> Somehow, this command does not seem to do the job. I wonder if I am
> missing out on some step (or a commandline option), as I've even tried the
> "boot.img" file from Redhat and it fails to boot as well.
>
> Has anyone tried this before? I'd be glad to if someone throws some light
> on this.
>
> TIA,
> harsha
>
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> Subject:
> Re: creating bootable disks for ia64 machines.
> From:
> Doug Chapman <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:12:36 -0500
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> Discussion of Linux on the Intel IA-64 processor <[email protected]>
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> To:
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> Sriharsha,
>
> It has been a while since I have needed to make a bootable iso but I dug
> through my notes.  My notes have the same arguments to mkisofs as you
> have.
>
> What happens when you try to boot it?  Can you see an efi readable
> filesystem from the efi shell?  If so then it is likely a problem with
> elilo not being set up properly in the boot image.
>
> - Doug
>
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 16:38 +0500, Sriharsha Setty wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been wanting to create a bootable disk (based on rhel4) for Itanium
>> machines. The command that I use to create ISO images currently is
>> something like this:
>>
>> `mkisofs  -J -r  -T -v  -pad -b images/boot.img  -c boot.catalog
>> -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 1  -o <output-file> <input-directory> '
>>
>> Somehow, this command does not seem to do the job. I wonder if I am
>> missing out on some step (or a commandline option), as I've even tried the
>> "boot.img" file from Redhat and it fails to boot as well.
>>
>> Has anyone tried this before? I'd be glad to if someone throws some light
>> on this.
>>
>> TIA,
>> harsha
>>
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> Subject:
> Re: creating bootable disks for ia64 machines.
> From:
> Sriharsha Setty <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:30:22 +0500
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> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:12:36 -0500, Doug Chapman wrote:
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> Hello Doug,
>  
>
>   
>> What happens when you try to boot it?  Can you see an efi readable
>> filesystem from the efi shell?  If so then it is likely a problem with
>> elilo not being set up properly in the boot image.
>>     
>
>
> I get the following message :
> Load failed  [Not found] Press any key to continue. 
>
> -harsha
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Sriharsha

Here's a template I follow...works every time:
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mkdir Boot
cd Boot
mkdir boot
cd boot
dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs=10k count=3000
mkfs.msdos boot.img
mount -o loop boot.img /mnt
cp files into /mnt
umount /mnt

cd back to Boot

mkisofs -r -v -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot.catalog -no-emul-boot -o 
boot.iso .

Burn boot.iso