Hi, > I've been trying to install using the XFCE CD on a zx6000. The boot > rom doesn't recognise the CD as being bootable. The netinst CD does > work.
Google zx6000 ... Itanium CPU ... would that be ia64 ? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/ia64/iso-cd/debian-7.0.0-ia64-netinst.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/ia64/iso-cd/debian-7.0.0-ia64-xfce-CD-1.iso Does Itanium boot via BIOS compatible firmware ? Or is it already half on the way to EFI ? The El Torito boot records in both images point to /boot/boot.img (from GRUB, not ISOLINUX ?). Both files /boot/boot.img are identical. The only difference i can spot is in the addresses of /boot/boot.img. netinst.iso has it in block 9108. xfce-CD-1.iso in block 252062. xorriso -as mkisofs option --sort-weight 1000000 /boot/boot.img would force /boot/boot.img to a much lower block address. It seems, that no -boot-info-table was among the -as mkisofs options of the xorriso run. The El Torito Initial Entry indicates -no-emul-boot and -boot-load-size 0. A test run of mount -o loop debian-7.0.0-ia64-xfce-CD-1.iso /mnt xorriso -as mkisofs \ -o /debian7_ia64xfce_repack.iso \ -c /boot/boot.catalog \ -b /boot/boot.img -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size i0 \ --sort-weight 1000000 /boot/boot.img \ /mnt yielded in debian7_ia64xfce_repack.iso for /boot/boot.img the block address 941. But i have no means to test whether my guessed options make a bootable image for ia64. The files should be all there. But the path from El Torito to /boot/boot.img is questionable. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
