Hi Frank, On Thursday 17 Aug 2017 11:36:41 Frank Scheiner wrote: > 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 > ```
This to me seems like faulty or incompatible media. Did you check the hash of the burned DVD to see if it was not corrupted during download/burn? NOTE: You'll need the size of the ISO image which you can read from your hard disk and then feed to md5sum; e.g. dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=xxxxxxxx | md5sum > 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. Yes, this proves there's nothing wrong with the 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 Sorry, I don't have access to such gear, but my money is on a corrupt DVD, or incompatible DVD type (e.g. DVD+/-R) -- Regards, Mick
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