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
```
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.
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
[1]:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20170810/install-ia64-minimal-20170810.iso
[2]:
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20170627/install-ia64-minimal-20170627.iso
[3]:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_alternatives#Diskless_install_using_PXE_and_kernel.2Finitrd.2Fsquashfs_from_the_LiveCD
