Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have a debian box and a Lite-On SHM-165PS cd/dvd drive. > > I'm having a devil of a time burning bootable DVDs - they seem to burn, > be readable, but when I try to boot, the system crunches a bit, the > drive lite flashes, then boots from the hard drive. (It boots from CDs > just fine.)
Maybe you did use a broken mkisofs variant from Debian? Did you try the official mkisofs from ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ > It looks like the default software (Nautilus and whatever is behind > that) sets the book-type to DVD-ROM, and from what I gather by googling > a bit, that might be my problem - and that I'd have better luck if it > was setting book-type to DVD+R. The other suggestion I've received is > to update the firmware on my drive. If you suspect readability problems, run "readcd meshpoints=20" and check whether readcd reports errors or whether the read speed does not monotonically increasee. > So... a few questions: > > - is that likely diagnosis? no > - if yes, how might I go about getting things to burn as book type DVD+R? I am not sure what kind of software you really used for writing. I recommend to use the original cdrecord and check again. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
