Re: Stress burning a bootable CDROM
From: David Kirkby (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:56:39 +0000
Beardy wrote:
> Hello NG,
>
> I have a problem burning a bootable CDROM. I have two systems - a U10
> with a CDRW (ARTEC WRR52Z 1.25 20030606) and a U60 with an old SUN 12X
> CD (TOSHIBA XM5701SUN12XCD0997)
>
> I have tried to create a bootable CDROM of S10_b69 using cdrw and
> Joerg's cdrecord, with both CDR and CDRW media (I never actually expect
> to get a CDRW to be bootable for some reason...) but now I cannot even
> get a bootable CDR (have domne previously). I have tried writing all the
> way down to 1X, and still get the usual selection of failures when
> booting the CDR on th U60 (short disk read, cannot open disk label, etc.)
>
> Sun's cdrw is obviously not configurable to a great extent on the
> command line, so I was wondering whether anyone had had success burning
> a bootable CDROM using the highly configurable and wondrous cdrecord
> between differing drives as I have. Could there be a media quality
> issue? I have tried TDK CDR with little success also.
>
> Many TIA,
>
>
> Beardy.
I don't know about Sun's cdrw, but I know with cdrecord you should not
have vold running.
I've created Solaris bootable CDs from both cdrecord and Adaptec's Easy
SCSI on a PC. Never had a problem.
Could you check your cdwriter by making a Windoze or Linux bootable CD?
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