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Chapter 1. Itanium System Specific Information
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The output is listed in the order the system was probed. So, all FAT16 file systems are listed first, then
IDE hard drives, then SCSI hard drives, then IDE CD-ROM drives, and finally SCSI CD-ROM drives.
For example, output of the
map
command might look like the following:
Device mapping table
fs0 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:00)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
fs1 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
fs2 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)/CDROM(Entry1)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
blk0 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:00)
blk1 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:00)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
blk2 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)
blk3 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
blk4 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part2,Sig00000000)
blk5 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)
blk6 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:80)/HD(Part3,Sig00000000)/HD(Part1,Sig725F7772)
blk7 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)
blk8 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)/CDROM(Entry1)
blk9 ­: VenHw(Unknown Device:FF)/CDROM(Entry1)/HD(Part1,Sig00000000)
In this example, there is an LS-120 diskette in the LS-120 drive as well as a CD-ROM in the CD-
ROM drive. All the listings beginning with
fs
are FAT16 file systems that EFI can read. All the listings
beginning with
blk
are block devices that EFI recognizes. Both the file systems and block devices are
listed in the order they are probed. Therefore,
fs0
is the system partition on the LS-120,
fs1
is the
system partition on the hard drive, and
fs2
is the system partition on the CD-ROM.
1.2.2. Itanium Systems — EFI System Partition
When partitioning your hard drive for Linux, you must create a system partition that is FAT16 (VFAT)
formatted and has a mount point of
/boot/efi/
. This partition contains the installed Linux kernel(s)
as well as the ELILO configuration file (
elilo.conf
). The
elilo.conf
file contains a list of kernels
from which you can boot your system.