On Sep 7, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > now that it boots i am only able to comment on some > technical details of the surpassed obstacles. > Any idea if anyone can help out as to why the serial console is garbled once debian-installer kicks in? The text on the kernel boot was completely fine! > >> HL-DT-STDVDRRW GWA-4161B > > That's an LG DVD writer. Up to ten years old, given its specs. > Should be fully ok for reading CD and DVD. > > >> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5132196 >> So now I have a successful Debian HPPA boot! > > Just to keep any misunderstandings from taking roots: > > The Debian ISOs are perfectly ok for being directly burned > to optical media. (As first track of the first session, to > be exacting.) > > The problem seems to be with user interface of the (Windows ? Mac ?) > burn software. It probably packed up the ISO image as data file > in a file system (UDF, ISO, ..., whatever). > A file in .cdr format is obviously unpacked from that format > and burned to medium. > > On Linux i would burn a Debian ISO by: > > xorriso -as cdrecord -v blank=as_needed -eject dev=/dev/sr0 > debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso > > regardless of the type of optical medium. > Agree - I had included the OSX tip for any future fellows reading this thread or searching for help - the Debian ISO itself was perfectly fine - the only two issues I faced were 1) the strange issue with the DVD drives booting properly only from DVD-RW media, and 2) a user error on not properly burning a bootable ISO on OSX. Thanks for the help! > > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
