I'm thinking they may be using ISOLINUX... never really examined them that closely before. If so that could definately be why they work. I know the media was okay... tested serveral times. I just finished testing with three different USB CD-ROM drives and OpenSolaris 2008.11 won't boot from any of them... just get the grub> prompt. I would figure if the BIOS had issues accessing the CDROM then I should see the same issues on other operating systems too... for now I guess i'll just have to stick an internal CD-ROM into each machine to build it out. I'm okay with that...
J?rgen Keil wrote: >> The BIOS is at the latest revision. Fedora, Windows, SuSe... they all >> work. >> > > Isn't Fedora / Suse using ISOLINUX as bootloader for CDs? > Solaris uses GRUB... > > >> It's specifically the limited CDROM support built into the >> Solaris boot loader (Thanks to Tony Reeves). >> > > I don't think there is limited CDROM support in GRUB. > I'd expect that a Linux distribution that uses GRUB on > the optical media would fail the CDROM boot on your machine > in exactly the same way as Solaris boot fails... > > > >> Once the CDROM was put on >> the first IDE channel internally it worked. >> > > That should confirm that the media was ok. > > And the BIOS seems to have problems accessing > the CDROM during a GRUB boot; which is similar to > bug 6513165.. >
