Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:58:08 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds <alan.edmonds@sterling.com> To: Jim King <king@sstar.com> Cc: Ed Watkeys <edw@poseur.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD Message-ID: <37F26F50.1CA7657D@plano.sterling.com> References: <26222.938581963@localhost> <4.2.0.58.19990929095459.00a73b18@plano.sterling.com>
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I just burned the image with Adaptec CD Deluxe on a Win98 system. It
booted fine on an ATAPI CD drive (system has no SCSI devices or
controllers).
Cheers,
Alan
Jim King wrote:
>
> At 08:59 AM 9/29/1999 -0400, Ed Watkeys wrote:
> >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.
>
> I just burned the image on an NT box using Goldenhawk's Cdrwin. The CD
> boots just fine on a Compaq AP400 with an ATAPI CDROM.
>
> Jim
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