On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:31 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday January 31 2003 08:50 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
<snip> > > List, I have a problem : > > Conclusion : How the *H**** can I make this CD > > bootable ? > > You don't. The iso is bootable. BTW, I believe the > 'cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao > Linux-distro-filename.iso' was from one'a my posts. -dao > isn't absolutely mandatory, but it does make the most > accurate (even the burned CD will check for md5sum) CD. > From 'man cdrecord' > " -dao Set SAO (Session At Once) mode which is usually > called Disk At Once mode. This currently only works > with MMC drives that sup- port Session At Once mode." > > So if dao doesn't work for you, it's probly some > ancient or OEM-only (ie, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, ...) > hardware issue. What's your burner, and firmware (it's > bios) version? Latest? Also, while many think that > faster is better'r... it's not. Burn bootable iso's at > 4x. </snip> Tom : Yes, it was your advice, please forgive me. To Dennis : Yes, my BIOS is set to bootable ( I usually install Mandrake from CD's - no problem). To Adolfo : Yes, the .iso should be bootable. At least the documentation says so. To Damian : Yes, I can browse the CD. Seems very much like a normal Mandrake-install-CD1. To Charles : Yes, at least I tried to burn as an image. Now, giving up on the incomprehensible, graphical frontends, I want to fall back to basics so the problem can be boiled down to : cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao Linux-distro-filename.iso I tried multiple perturbations of options, (dao, raw16, raw96r, -speed1, etc.) - to no avail. (Everything as root). My burner is a HP 9100, usually works fine. This is beyond me. Not important, though. I just wanted a *demo-linux* for advocacy. This one was Mandrake-like, but I can use Knoppix instead, although it is Debian-like. Thanks for your advice, everyone. Kaj Haulrich. =========================================== Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Source : my 100 % Microsoft-free personal computer. ===========================================
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