IA64 Installation Issues

From openSUSE

Booting the installer

The easiest method of booting the installer is to burn the mini boot.iso. You can find it here:

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/opensuse/download/inst-source/boot/boot.iso

Setting up an EFI partition to boot the installer from

You can also boot the installer from a spare EFI partition on a root disk by copying the contents of the ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/opensuse/download/inst-source/boot/ia64/image to the partition. /dev/sda1 is the spare EFI partition in the example below. Yours may be different.

# mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1
mkdosfs 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)

# mkdir /tmp/efi
# mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/efi

# mkdir /tmp/mnt
# wget ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/opensuse/download/inst-source/boot/ia64/image
# mount -o ro,loop image /tmp/mnt

# rsync -a /tmp/mnt/ /tmp/efi/

# ls /tmp/efi/efi/boot/
bootia64.efi  elilo.conf  initrd  linux  textmenu

# umount /tmp/efi
# umount /tmp/mnt

On reboot, switch to the EFI partition containing the installer contents and boot "bootia64". The "Manual" option allows you to specify the network install source.