Re: IA64, SLES 9 and Lilo

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, LDB wrote:
> Cook, Steven C wrote:

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: LDB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 16:22
>>> We just installed SLES 9 on an IA64 server and the default boot manager is 
>>> LILO.
>>> Is that normal for IA64? I do not think so .. but ...
>> 
>> 
>> Last I heard, elilo (EFI LILO) was the _only_ boot manager
>> working on IA64...it's been a bit, but... *shrugs*
>> --steve-- 
>
> Thank you .. Any ideas on how to boot it into multi-user mode from
> the EFI Shell? :) I have tried,
>
> elilo vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
> elilo -i initrd vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2

I have only a Dell PE7150 which runs into "illegal instruction" since 
SLES9 (no chance - old ia64 CPU support dropped in kernel, it seems), but 
I still remember that you can use the EFI shell to inspect the elilo 
directory.
Usually there is some conf file (named NOT .conf, but maybe elilo) which 
holds the possible kernel/initrd pairs, so you only need to say "elilo 
<target> with a matching target string.

Hope it helps,

Cheers -e
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg ([email protected], [email protected])