Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-24 Thread Hans
Hi all, so, the problem is 90 percent solved. It was indeed the problem with the graphic mode, just as Stefan's crytal ball told. Orinially the kernel driver should automatically detect, which mode is possible and then switch to it. But it doesn't. So the screen went blank. The fix was easy:

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-23 Thread Hans
Am Montag, 22. Januar 2024, 23:35:23 CET schrieb Stefan Monnier: Hi Stefan, I think your crystal ball is clever. The same idea came in my mind, and I believe, the screen goes blank, when the graphics card wants to switch into vesa mode. Please note, that I start the livefile on the sam

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread gene heskett
On 1/22/24 16:30, Hans wrote: Hi Thomas, Anyways, 32 GB of size should not be a problem. Ok. size does not matter When the stick is booting, first appear the usual text messages, The first message is the boot prompt. Then the usual messages· PCI found and so on. Last message is, that

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Last message is, that a new USB device is found, then the screen goes > blank. I can make some snapshots of a video, by interest. My crystal ball blames the video driver (presuming that the DRM module for your video card is loaded around the same time as that USB device is found).

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Hans
Hi Thomas, > Anyways, 32 GB of size should not be a problem. Ok. size does not matter > > > When the stick is booting, first appear the usual text messages, > The first message is the boot prompt. Then the usual messages· PCI found and so on. Last message is, that a new USB device is found,

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > does anyone know, if there is a limit of the size an iso may have? With xorriso: 4 TiB = 4096 GiB. An ISO 9660 filesystem may have 2 exp 32 data blocks. The usual block size is 2 exp 11 = 2048 bytes. That would be 2 exp 43 = 8 TiB in total. But xorriso uses libburn for writing

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Marco Moock
Am 22.01.2024 um 21:07:55 Uhr schrieb Hans: > I copied the file using dd to an usb stick, but it does crash at boot. Is the USB stick equal or bigger than the ISO? If not, the writing process will just stop at the end of the device and the stick data will be corrupted because they are

OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Hans
Hi folks, does anyone know, if there is a limit of the size an iso may have? Background: I have a selfmade lifefile iso image, which was created by bootcdwrite. The size of the imagefile is about 32GB. I copied the file using dd to an usb stick, but it does crash at boot. When the stick is