Re: IA64, SLES 9 and Lilo

Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> 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

Yes, it helps. Thanks ...

LDB