[Fedora-ia64-list] FC9 boot problem

Émeric Maschino emeric.maschino at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 22:03:23 UTC 2008


Hi,

Don't boot the FC9 DVD with the elilo.efi that immediately appears in the
EFI shell partition.
Run the one that is on the EFI\boot subdirectory, it should work fine.
I had the exact same issue when I installed FC9 on my workstation a few days
ago.

Hope this helps,

    Émeric



2008/9/3 Ramirez, DanielX <danielx.ramirez at intel.com>

>  I am trying to install FC9 on an old Intel SR87BH2 server, and I have run
> into a strange problem.  It aborts in elilo with the following error:
>
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> ELILO BOOT elilo.c (line 78) cannot find a loader for vmlinuz
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> The server has been upgraded to Montecito dual core Itanium 2 processors,
> and has the latest BIOS/Firmware I am able to find.  I tried both the DVD
> and CD versions, and both get the same error.  Both ISO's pass the MD5 check
> OK.  FC8 installs fine, so that's what I am using, but I'd really like to
> upgrade to FC9.  Is there something different about elilo in FC9, or is this
> a bug of some kind?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>      Dan
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>
> *Daniel E. Ramirez*
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