Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - VIRTUAL SERVER ADMINISTRATION, Installation Manual

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Chapter 4. Installing on Intel
®
and AMD Systems
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Once you have entered your BIOS setup program, find the section where you can alter
your boot sequence. The default is often C, A or A, C (depending on whether you boot
from your hard drive [C] or a diskette drive [A]). Change this sequence so that the CD-
ROM is first in your boot order and that C or A (whichever is your typical boot default) is
second. This instructs the computer to first look at the CD-ROM drive for bootable media;
if it does not find bootable 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
.
4.4.2. 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 4.4.2.2, “Booting the Installation Program from an LS-120
Diskette”
for more information.
4.4.2.1. 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.
4. Type
elilo linux
to boot into the installation program.
5. Go to
Chapter 4, Installing on Intel
®
and AMD Systems
to begin the installation.