5.1. Booting from CD

Booting from CD is one of the easiest way to start and install your PA-RISC machine; assuming you have a CD drive handy and a bootable CD. You can download official PA/Linux ISOs as well as recent Net Install ISO (see Glossary) at The PA/Linux ESIEE Team download page, or at PA-RISC/Linux official website.

1. start the box and enter the BOOT_ADMIN mode. (Section 3.1.1)

2. Dispose your bootable CD on the CD tray and close it. Sounds obvious, but we know guys who missed that step :)

3. There are two options from there : either you know the full PATH to your CD device, then you can jump to next step, or you don't. In this last case, issue a search ipl to list all available devices with IPL. You can also specify a search [PATH], which is fastest. For instance if you want to search the SCSI bus:

   search SCSI

   On recent boxes, search disk is quite helpful. Take a look at help search for details specific to your box.

4. Once you know the full PATH to your CD drive, you can issue a boot <PATH>. That's all. If everything goes fine, it will start booting the CD present in the CD reader. Real life example :

   boot ide