On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 11:33 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I tested it on a dual athlon system. The last motherboard update was something > on the order of 5 years ago. So I would expect things to work on a wide > range of systems.
Well, then I'd say you tested it. You're sure the filesystem is UDF Plain, correct? It wasn't ISO 9660 Yellow Book (possibly as a result of UDF not being accepted as an option for some reason)? > My reading of the documentation was that the iso image looks like iso9660 > except the file size for the isoimage is reduced and hence is inconsistent > with the udf information. I've actually never dissected the ISO files I regularly create with mkisofs. But I know I've gone beyond 4.0GiB (~4.3GB) before, so they must be Level 3. We're kinda spoiled on Linux, because an .iso file != as written, but the kernel hides a lot of that in the block access. An .iso file, last time I checked, is ISO 9660 "Yellow Book" (data) track. So I'm curious if an .iso file, as well as written to optical media, is still a single track for > 4.0GiB (> ~4.3GB), or multiple Yellow Book tracks with the extent in the first. > The documentation said that to access the file > you would need to mount it with the udf or ufs drivers. My expectation > is the bios never gets that far as it only needs to see the boot information. Depends. I was under the impression that when not using PC BIOS floppy emulation, but native mode with El Torito, it uses still requires and accesses the ISO 9660 Yellow Track, which needs to have filenames limited to 31 characters. But I might be confusing ISOLinux specifics. > Once things are booting and linux is running I wouldn't expect problems. Agreed there. -- Bryan J Smith - Senior Consultant - Red Hat GPS SE US mailto:[email protected] +1 (407) 489-7013 (Mobile) mailto:[email protected] (non-RH/ext to Blackberry) ----------------------------------------------------- For every dollar you spend on Red Hat solutions, you not only fund the leading community development re- source, but you receive the #1 IT industry leader in corporate value. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
