Booting the Installation Program from an LS-120 Diskette

If your Itanium cannot boot from Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1, you must
boot from an LS-120 diskette. If you want to perform a hard drive, NFS, FTP,
or HTTP installation, you must boot from a boot LS-120 diskette.

You must create an LS-120 boot image file diskette from the boot image file
on CD #1: images/boot.img. To create this diskette in Linux, insert a blank
LS-120 diskette and type the following command at a shell prompt: dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda bs=180k

Replace boot.img with the full path to the boot image file and /dev/hda with
the correct device name for the LS-120 diskette drive.

If you are not using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD, the installation
program starts in text mode and you must choose a few basic options for your
system.

To boot from an LS-120 diskette follow these steps:
Insert the LS-120 diskette you made from the boot image file
boot.img. If you are performing a local CD-ROM installation but
booting off the LS-120 diskette, insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
CD #1 also. If you are performing a hard drive, NFS, FTP, or HTTP
installation, you do not need the CD-ROM. From the Boot Option menu choose EFI Shell. At the Shell> prompt, change the device to the LS-120 drive by typing
the command fs0: using the example map output above. Type elilo linux to boot into the installation program.

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