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Booting the Installation Program on Itanium
media on the CD-ROM drive, it then checks your hard drive or diskette drive.
Save your changes before exiting the BIOS. For more information, refer to the
documentation that came with your system.
After a short delay, a screen containing the boot: prompt should appear. The screen contains
information on a variety of boot options. Each boot option also has one or more help screens
associated with it. To access a help screen, press the appropriate function key as listed in the
line at the bottom of the screen.
As you boot the installation program, be aware of two issues:
• Once the boot: prompt appears, the installation program automatically begins if you take no
action within the first minute. To disable this feature, press one of the help screen function
keys.
• If you press a help screen function key, there is a slight delay while the help screen is read
from the boot media.
Normally, you only need to press Enter to boot. Be sure to watch the boot messages to review if
the Linux kernel detects your hardware. If your hardware is properly detected, continue to the
next section. If it does not properly detect your hardware, you may need to restart the
installation and use one of the boot options provided in Chapter 8, Additional Boot Options for
Intel® and AMD Systems.
3.2. Booting the Installation Program on Itanium Systems
Your Itanium system should be able to boot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation program
directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1. If your Itanium cannot boot the installation
program from the CD-ROM (or if you want to perform a hard drive, NFS, FTP, or HTTP
installation) you must boot from an LS-120 diskette. Refer to Section 3.2.2, “Booting the
Installation Program from an LS-120 Diskette” for more information.
3.2.1. Booting the Installation Program from the DVD/CD-ROM
To boot from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1 follow these steps:
1. Remove all media except Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1.
2. From the Boot Option menu choose EFI Shell.
3. At the Shell> prompt, change to the file system on the CD-ROM. For example, in the above
sample map output, the system partition on the CD-ROM is fs1. To change to the fs1 file
system, type fs1: at the prompt.
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