On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:42:14PM +0100, Emeric Maschino wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a question regarding the boot process of Woody on an IA-64 > platform. Where should the kernel images and elilo.* files go?
any efi partition should do. > When asking to make the system bootable during the Woody installation > process, I choose to install elilo on /dev/sdb1. I can briefly see a > efibootmgr error message just before the reboot process starts. At boot > up, there's no Debian entry in the EFI menu (might be related to the > efibootmgr error I think). Once you get into the os, try using a newer version of efibootmgr: http://free.linux.external.hp.com/~dannf/efibootmgr/ Then try running /usr/sbin/elilo with the --format flag (which will wipe sdb1). > So, using the EFI shell, I navigate through > fs1:\EFI\debian and manually enter elilo with no luck. I'm given an > error about a missing vmlinux file. This path however contains > elilo.conf, elilo.efi, README and vmlinuz. Trying to rename vmlinuz to > vmlinux doesn't solve the problem. Moving all these files in fs1:\EFI > changes nothing but moving them to fs1:\ makes the system bootable. > Really stange because in my elilo.conf file, all paths are related to > EFI/debian. do this: fs1: cd \efi\debian elilo -C \efi\debian\elilo.conf > Any idea what's wrong with elilo and why the boot entry isn't created? I'm guessing an old version of efibootmgr that doesn't happen to work w/ your config.
