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Itanium-2 bootable dvd creation/use

 
Daniel Denney
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Itanium-2 bootable dvd creation/use

Has anyone encountered a problem booting from a dvd created using dvd+rw-tools on an itanium system? It works fine on a PA-RISC system, but is not recognized as a boot disc when created on an itanium system. I already referenced the papers on docs.hp.com and made sure that all of the itanium only parameters were correct (lif image, etc).
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather...not screaming in terror like his passengers!
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Steven E. Protter
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Re: Itanium-2 bootable dvd creation/use

Shalom Daniel,

I've created bootable dvd's for PA-RISC and Itanium systmes (we have few) and had no problems.

I can't boot an Itanium off a boot dvd created for PA-RISC, nor would I expect to be able to do do this.

Can you share you creation method and error message?

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Daniel Denney
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Re: Itanium-2 bootable dvd creation/use

Shalom Steven,

I wrote and used the attached script. I wrote it for PA-RISC and used it a number of times. It always worked. I modified it for IA64 but it has never worked. It produces no errors during the execution. When I try to boot from the resultant dvd, it tells me there is not bootable media in the dvd reader. Maybe I missed something during the modification for IA64.

Thanks,

Daniel
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather...not screaming in terror like his passengers!