Thanks for getting back so quickly - Hmmm... Using a floppy works fine! I'll take a peek into eltorito-harddisk I suppose.
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:58, Tom Oehser wrote: > > Probably the BIOS can only boot 1.44 images from CDs, and is too > brain-dead to know that it is failing on a 2.88 image. Try using > a real floppy instead of the CD. If that is the problem, there > is no simple fix, you could try imaging one as a harddisk but > I've never done ElTorito-harddisk, I only do the ElTorito-2.88. > > -Tom > > On 29 Apr 2002, Erik Williamson wrote: > > > Date: 29 Apr 2002 12:44:14 -0600 > > From: Erik Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [tomsrtbt] No Luck Booting IBM's > > > > Hi All, > > > > Has anyone else had problems booting IBM's (Specifically PL-300 & > > Netvista) ? I'm Freezing at the LILO prompt (It stops at 'LIL'). I > > should also mention that the same CD has booted other (non-IBM) machines > > quite happily. > > > > So, is there something I should be adding to mkisofs? I've been digging > > around and have come up with zilch. > > > > Here's my command-line: > > mkisofs -b boot/tomsrtbt-2.0.53.ElTorito.288.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o > > 457-CD.iso 457-CD > > > > Thanks for any advice, > > Erik. > > > > PS - Thanks for a rear-end-kicking tool, Tom! > > > > -- > > e r i k w i l l i a m s o n [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary > > > > > -- e r i k w i l l i a m s o n [EMAIL PROTECTED] system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
