Subject: Re: Problems booting CD on iBook Dual USB
From: Malayil Philip George (georgemp@mac.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 14:12:10 MST
hi,
does cdrecord support HFS file systems? maybe this is the
problem...on the pc side nero will and maybe the latest version of easy
cd-creator pro. if mac os x isn't recognizing the discs i guess it's
because of a burn error. but, if u are burning iso's they shoudl burn
fine on a pc....u might have trouble with HFS/ISO hybrid images
George
On Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 02:23 AM, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> 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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