[SCore-users] Hint re installing SCore (or any Linux) on Asus P4B motherboards

[Shinji Sumimoto]

Hi.

Thank you for your informative message. 

Is it possible to boot some other media, such as CD-ROM?  If so, there
is a way to write score client boot image to CD-R in order to install
SCore.

The boot disk image of SCore clients is /opt/score/ndboot/images/boot.img.

So, to create bootable CD-ROM
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Ex:

Using mkisofs
 
/tmp# mkisofs -b /opt/score/ndboot/images/boot.img -c boot.catalog -o /tmp/score-boot.iso -J -r -T 

and cdrecord.

or using xcdroast 
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Shinji.

From: Alex Lambert <alambert at scl.ameslab.gov>
Subject: [SCore-users] Hint re installing SCore (or any Linux) on Asus P4B motherboards
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:36:41 -0500
Message-ID: <200207151536.g6FFahw02770 at grasshopper.scl.ameslab.gov>

alambert> All,
alambert> 
alambert> I've had a difficult time installing the SCore client software/bootdisk onto 
alambert> a machine I have with an Asus motherboard (P4B). I attempted to replace the 
alambert> floppy drive and tried several different disks, to no avail. I spent a week 
alambert> working on this and finally found out what was wrong.
alambert> 
alambert> The BIOS for the P4B series appears to be badly broken -- it won't boot Linux 
alambert> disks at all. Everything I tried was met with "Boot failed", but 98 bootdisks 
alambert> worked fine. By luck, I stumbled upon an update to fix this.
alambert> 
alambert> The 1010 BIOS available from ASUS's website 
alambert> (ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4b/1010.zip) fixes this issue. Be 
alambert> forewarned that you'll need a DOS boot floppy and the AFLASH.EXE utility 
alambert> (ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/flash/aflash.exe).
alambert> 
alambert> Hope this helps someone out there. I look forward to testing SCore.
alambert> 
alambert> 
alambert> 
alambert> Regards,
alambert> 
alambert> Alex Lambert
alambert> Scalable Computing Laboratory
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alambert> 
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Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Labs