Booting from CD...
How do PA RISC machines manage booting from CD? How does one create such a CD?
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Alex deVries Vice President of Engineering The Puffin Group
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How do PA RISC machines manage booting from CD? How does one create such a CD?
I am not sure exactly but you could try just writing the LIF image to the CD. Because HP's IPL can boot from a hpux file system, a PA machine can probably also boot from a CD with a hpux file system on it. I doubt HP machines can boot from an ISO 9660 CD.
Most CD writing software has a mode that allows copying a binary image file to a CD. There are some issues regarding CD sector size. You want the image to be an integral number of CD sectors.
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J. David Anglin [email protected] National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6605)
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How do PA RISC machines manage booting from CD? How does one create such a CD?
I am doing that as I read your post. The Ignite-UX toolkit available on software.hp.com has the tools to do this. See make_medialif. I make a HFS file images that have Ignite golden images and SD software depots. make_medialif creates the LIF file with the INSTALL boot and Ignite config stuff. The instl_combine command wraps the LIF file containing the INSTLALL kernel and INSTALLFS filesystem around my HFS image file. I then use cdrecord to write the whole enchilada to CD-R.
Matt
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Matt Earley nortelnetworks.com