Hi, sorry for the very late reply, but my obsd.misc mail folder has grown to 3000 mails during the last couple weeks while I was busy moving.
Anyway, I'm as the original author of said page can confirm (sadly) that you might run into a (known!?) cdboot bug. For some reason cdboot can't boot a DVD exceeding a certain size and or containing more than a certain amount of files. There is a rather ugly, but at least working way around. Josh Grosse found it while building his live CDs, which can be found here, btw.: http://jggimi.homeip.net/livecd/faq.html The problem arouse with the KDE ones, the "solution" is to pack /usr/local into its own .iso (or perhaps a vnc mounted image would work as well) and mount it during startup. I did not build a LiveCD for a long time myself, but I hope too have "free time" coming up and will then update the instructions where necessary. Regards, ahb On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:35:18AM -0500, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. wrote: > qemu doesn't work for some reason. Anytime I try and use qemu I get the > error "Cannot initialize SDL library..." > > Yes, I have tried it in different hardware. What exactly do cdbr and > cdboot do? I get the screen that says "OpenBSD boot loader" (with the > hardware fd1 etc listed), with the "Loading /CDBOOT" above it and it just > hangs. > > cdbr is listed in the installation instructions as the cdboot loader. > cdboot is the second stage boot loader IIRC. Don't hesitate to correct me > if I'm wrong here. > > The help is apprecitated. I'm not trying to make install media (that would > actually be easy), just boot this liveCD. Has anyone else gotten a LiveDVD > to work? > > Ted > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:06 -0500, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... >>> Relevant info: >>> --------------- >>> I'm burning a re-writable DVD using the above instructions >>> >>> The mkisofs command to burn the image is as follows: >>> >>> /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -no-iso-translate -R -T -allow-leading-dots -l -d >>> -D -N -v -b cdbr -no-emul-boot -c boot.catalog -o /tmp/livecd.iso /livecd >>> >>> -------- >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pushing against a deadline, >>> so >>> any tips / pointers / suggestions are also appreciated >> >> Have you tested the .iso in QEMU? Have you tried it on different >> hardware? Maybe it's because it's a DVD (DVDs might need more drivers >> than the boot loader has? Maybe try cdboot instead of cdbr? >> >> -Nick > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
