[Fedora-ia64-list] announcing "CowboyBoot" linux for ia64

[Luck, Tony]

Could be.  The -/|\ helicopter progress spin thing runs for a
long time (much longer than for the kernel load) before the
error happens ... so the error is several megabytes into the
loading process.

-Tony

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From: fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Doug Chapman
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:00 PM
To: ia64 Fedora Core Development
Subject: RE: [Fedora-ia64-list] announcing "CowboyBoot" linux for ia64

Interesting, looks like someting is wrong with how the iso gets created.
I will try this out myself later today and see if I can reproduce it.

I seem to recall in the past occasionally the size of the initrd would
grow and we had to adjust something.  I seem to recall we needed to do
this around the RHEL5 timeframe.  Might be something like that.

- Doug


On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:38 -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Dave,
>
> On the zx2000 I used the EFI shell.  On the Tiger I just used the boot
> from CD/DVD option
> in the EFI menu.
>
> I tried on the zx2000 again using the sequence you describe.  There is
> no "redhat" directory
> in the EFI directory.  There is a "boot" directory though, so I tried
> that.  Same error :-(
>
> fs0:\EFI\boot> elilo
> ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done
> Loading file initrd.img...util.c(line 260):read_file failed Invalid
> Paramater
> initrd.c(line 91): read image(initrd.img) failed: 2
> Exit status code: Load Error
>
> fs0:\EFI\boot>
>
>
> My CD reads just fine in another system ... I used "dd" to read all
> the data back
> and compared the md5 sum of that data with the original boot.iso ...
> they match.
>
> -Tony
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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> [mailto:fedora-ia64-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dave Bowman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:55 AM
> To: ia64 Fedora Core Development
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] announcing "CowboyBoot" linux for ia64
>
>
>
> Tony,
>
> I did all my test installs over the network so I have not yet tried
> the iso.
> Did you try this from the EFI shell?  If so you need to:
>
> cd efi
> cd redhat
> elilo
>
> 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.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck at intel.com>
> wrote:
>         >  http://www.linuxdudes.org/pub/cowboyboot/linux/
>         >
>         > I will try to keep an installable tree in in the
>         development-lastgood directory
>
>
>         Dave,
>
>         I downloaded boot.iso from the
>         development-lastgood/ia64/os/images/
>         directory and tried to boot it on an HP zx2000 and also on an
>         Intel
>         Tiger.
>
>         Both systems got an error while loading the initrd:
>
>         util.c(line 260): read_file failed Invalid Paramter
>         initrd.c(line 91): read image(initrd.img) failed: 2
>
>         Not sure if I got a bad download, burned a bad CD, or
>         if there is a real problem.
>
>         To help rule out the first of these, the md5sum of the
>         boot.iso as I have it here is:
>
>         9a608a6acb0f45a6af4ec026844c106e
>
>         -Tony
>
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