Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 will not boot on my iBook Dual USB (ISO Questions)
From: Bill Vinson (billvinson@mac.com)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 20:56:31 MST
Well, tried a second cd-r with a slower speed and the -data flag. This
one won't mount on OS X or even try to boot. I have no idea what is
going on here, but it is driving me nuts. I haven't seen any docs, but
can I set up my tftp boot server to pass yaboot over to the iBook for a
netboot and install YDL over the network?
Thanks,
Bill
On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 10:08 PM, Bill Vinson wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Glad to see it is working for someone else. I
> didn't think using -data is necessary as according to the cdrecord man
> page it is the default. Oh well, I will try slowing it down. I
> usually brose the web while burning as I have a scsi cd-r and anything
> short of heavy i/o doesn't make this guy so much a stutter or at least
> that is my experience when burning x86 cds. I will try your command
> line with my dev stuff and see what happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 09:56 PM, Jim Cole wrote:
>
>> Bill Vinson's bits of Fri, 2 Nov 2001 translated to:
>>
>>> catch failed. I did notice that the CD will mount under mac os x as
>>> an
>>> hfs partition, but when I go into the /YellowDog/ppc directory there
>>> is
>>> nothing there?
>>
>> This is a bad sign. The contents of YellowDog/ppc should be
>> visible when viewed using OS X.
>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Can anyone confirm that burning an iso on x86 Linux with cdrecord
>>> works fine for bootable cds?
>>
>> Yes. I have done this a number of times.
>>
>>> 2) If #1 is true, then are there any other command options I am
>>> missing?
>>
>> I use
>>
>> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,6,0 -data cd_image_name
>>
>>> 3) What to try next?
>>
>> Are you carefully reading the output of cdrecord to make sure no
>> errors are reported? Have you tried slowing things down a bit by
>> using 'speed=2' ? You aren't trying to do any other work on the
>> machine while it is burning the CD, are you?
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
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