[parisc-linux] woody install on 720/50

[Albert Strasheim]

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Hello,

The palo README has some information on this. I quote:

                     Creating ISO9660 Bootable CD-ROMs

   Bootable CDs are often used for installation. In short the process is:
    1. Master your CD image but don't burn it. The image MUST containthe
       kernel(s), iplboot, and ramdisk file (if used).
    2. Run palo to make the image bootable:
        ./palo  -k path/to/vmlinux \
                -b iplboot \
                -c '0/vmlinux ....' \
                -C your-iso-image
       -C   tells   palo   to  prepare  a  CD-ROM  image.  'iplboot' and
       'path/to/vmlinux'  must  be exactly the same files (same contents)
       you  previously  copied  into  the future root file system or palo
       will  fail.  I usually point those paths at the exact files in the
       directory from which I mastered the CD just to be sure.
    3. Burn the CD and boot it.

   CD-ROM support at the moment is a bit of a hack. Here's how it works.

Read the README for some more info. I haven't tried this since my
(probably VERY old) SCSI CD-ROM drive won't read RW discs.

Regards,

Albert

On Tue, 02 Oct 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:27:23AM +0200, Albert Strasheim wrote:
> > I've think I've tried to convey the following command to you in about 3
> > different threads across 2 mailing lists :-)
>=20
> Err, yeah, you have. Sorry about that. Thanks for being patient :-)
>=20
> > Get palo-latest.tar.gz (about 62 KB) from puffin.external.hp.com,
> > compile that, cross-compile your kernel and then run the following:
> >=20
> > (linux/ contains the kernel and palo/ contains the bootloader)
> >=20
> > palo/palo/palo -f /dev/null -k linux/vmlinux -r root.bin -s lifimage \
> >   -b palo/iplboot -c "0/linux HOME=3D/ root=3D/dev/ram initrd=3D0/ramdi=
sk"
> >=20
> > What this does is the following:
> >=20
> > palo takes the kernel (vmlinux (with Jurij's patches in my case)), the
> > latest Debian rootdisk (root.bin), puts them together and creates a
> > lifimage for you to boot via rbootd or tftpd (depending on your model).
>=20
> I'd particularly like to boot from CD if possible. The network boot
> is possible, but less convenient. Is it possible (and not unreasonably
> difficult) to create a new CD with the new kernel?
>=20
>=20
> thanks
> Hamish
> --=20
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>

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