Re: Problems booting CD on iBook Dual USB


Subject: Re: Problems booting CD on iBook Dual USB
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 13:53:21 MST


At 4:08 AM -0500 11/2/01, Bill Vinson wrote:
>Okay, I have now tried to burn cds for Yellow Dog 2.0, Mandrake 8.0,
>Debian PPC, and Linux PPC. The only one that would sort of boot is
>Linux PPC and it hung but at least it started booting.

Not surprising that it crashed, actually. LinuxPPC hasn't been
updated in a long time (the rumor is that the company is dead, and we
do know for sure they haven't communicated anything in a LONG time).
Anyways, I'm not surprised the crusty old kernel included with LPPC
2K Q4 fails to boot on the new iBook, since that computer is newer
than the distribution.

>Any way to check the CD to find out what is going wrong? Only one of
>the Debian CD's would mount in Mac OS X, the YDL and Mandrake were never
>even recognized as being there.

Not familiar with Debian or Mandrake, but in the case of YDL the CD
should be a hybrid HFS/ISO9660 CD and should mount in MacOS X. If it
fails to do so, that may be an indication that the HFS filesystem
structure is screwed up.

Actually, looking at the relevant support files, it looks like OS X
also supports ISO 9660 (as it should), so it isn't able to see either
FS. You might take a look at /var/log/system.log to see if any
errors are logged when you insert the CD.

>I am just running into a brick wall on this one. BTW, these were all
>burned on an x86 Redhat system with cdrecord if that matters :)

The common YDL 2.0 burn error seen on this list was for people to use
Toast on MacOS 8/9, mount the image, and burn a CD using the Mac
files/folders mode, instead of burning the image directly. I assume
that since you used cdrecord that doesn't apply, though.

-- 
Tim Seufert



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