4.3.2. 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 4.3.2.2, “Booting the Installation Program from an LS-120 Diskette” for more information.
4.3.2.1. Booting the Installation Program from the DVD/CD-ROM
To boot from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1 follow these steps:
Remove all media except Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD #1.
From the Boot Option menu choose EFI Shell.
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.
Type elilo linux to boot into the installation program.
