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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:57:22 -0500
From:      Jim King <king@sstar.com>
To:        Ed Watkeys <edw@poseur.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD 
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990929095459.00a73b18@mail.sstar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9909290829270.27819-100000@poseur.com>
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At 08:59 AM 9/29/1999 -0400, Ed Watkeys wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > All bootable Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD CDs use the El Torrito boot
> > hack to accomplish their purpose.  It's the -b flag to mkisofs.
>
> > Yes.  However, it seems to have problems with ATAPI CDROM drives
> > (where it works fine with SCSI) and we're still scratching our heads
> > over that one.  What works for one should work for both, but no.  It
> > would be a lot easier to debug if it just plain didn't work for
> > *anyone*, you know? :)
>
>Well, to make this a bit more depressing, I burned the ISO image using
>Adaptec's "Easy CD Creator" on an NT machine around here, and I got
>exactly the same behavior -- fine image, no booting. (Same ATAPI CD-RW
>drive.)
>
>Which makes me begin to wonder about the image...
>
>Anyway, the next steps are to bring in my Philips SCSI CD-R and give
>things a whirl. On a Mac, with Windows, and with FreeBSD.
>
>I'm still looking for someone who's successfully booted from this
>image.

I just burned the image on an NT box using Goldenhawk's Cdrwin.  The CD 
boots just fine on a Compaq AP400 with an ATAPI CDROM.

Jim



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