From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 29 5:55:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from poseur.com (squalor.poseur.com [207.106.22.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD06814D57 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edw@poseur.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poseur.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA29404 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:59:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:59:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Ed Watkeys To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD In-Reply-To: <26222.938581963@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > All bootable Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD CDs use the El Torrito boot > hack to accomplish their purpose. It's the -b flag to mkisofs. > Yes. However, it seems to have problems with ATAPI CDROM drives > (where it works fine with SCSI) and we're still scratching our heads > over that one. What works for one should work for both, but no. It > would be a lot easier to debug if it just plain didn't work for > *anyone*, you know? :) Well, to make this a bit more depressing, I burned the ISO image using Adaptec's "Easy CD Creator" on an NT machine around here, and I got exactly the same behavior -- fine image, no booting. (Same ATAPI CD-RW drive.) Which makes me begin to wonder about the image... Anyway, the next steps are to bring in my Philips SCSI CD-R and give things a whirl. On a Mac, with Windows, and with FreeBSD. I'm still looking for someone who's successfully booted from this image. Ed -- Ed Watkeys edw@poseur.com Philosopher, Programmer, Nihilist http://poseur.com/ v:215/694-4201 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message