<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5726" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>Dave,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>On the zx2000 I used the EFI shell. On the Tiger I just used the boot from CD/DVD option</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>in the EFI menu.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>I tried on the zx2000 again using the sequence you describe. There is no "redhat" directory</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>in the EFI directory. There is a "boot" directory though, so I tried that. Same error :-(</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>fs0:\EFI\boot> elilo</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>Loading file initrd.img...util.c(line 260):read_file failed Invalid Paramater</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>initrd.c(line 91): read image(initrd.img) failed: 2</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>Exit status code: Load Error</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>fs0:\EFI\boot></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>My CD reads just fine in another system ... I used "dd" to read all the data back</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>and compared the md5 sum of that data with the original boot.iso ... they match.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=362383120-29042009>-Tony</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> fedora-ia64-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dave Bowman<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:55 AM<BR><B>To:</B> ia64 Fedora Core Development<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] announcing "CowboyBoot" linux for ia64<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Tony,<BR><BR>I did all my test installs over the network so I have not yet tried the iso.<BR>Did you try this from the EFI shell? If so you need to:<BR><BR>cd efi<BR>cd redhat<BR>elilo<BR><BR>There is a copy of elilo in the root directory of the iso (at least when we did F10, I assume that isn't fixed) but for some reason it doesn't work correctly in that directory.<BR><BR>Dave<BR><BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Luck, Tony <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:tony.luck@intel.com">tony.luck@intel.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV class=im>> <A href="http://www.linuxdudes.org/pub/cowboyboot/linux/" target=_blank>http://www.linuxdudes.org/pub/cowboyboot/linux/</A><BR>><BR>> I will try to keep an installable tree in in the development-lastgood directory<BR><BR></DIV>Dave,<BR><BR>I downloaded boot.iso from the development-lastgood/ia64/os/images/<BR>directory and tried to boot it on an HP zx2000 and also on an Intel<BR>Tiger.<BR><BR>Both systems got an error while loading the initrd:<BR><BR>util.c(line 260): read_file failed Invalid Paramter<BR>initrd.c(line 91): read image(initrd.img) failed: 2<BR><BR>Not sure if I got a bad download, burned a bad CD, or<BR>if there is a real problem.<BR><BR>To help rule out the first of these, the md5sum of the<BR>boot.iso as I have it here is:<BR><BR>9a608a6acb0f45a6af4ec026844c106e<BR><BR>-Tony<BR><FONT color=#888888><BR>--<BR>Fedora-ia64-list mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Fedora-ia64-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ia64-list@redhat.com</A><BR><A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ia64-list" target=_blank>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ia64-list</A><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>