Hi my Inspiron N4110 won't boot off of the USB installer images, but it
works just fine from the CDROM images from the install isos. I want to
be able to have a netbsd only ecosystem for my explorations with the os,
so I read up in the guide about using cdrecord to burn an iso image,
downloaded the NetBSD-10 installer iso and then tried cdrecord on the
iso as directed. It refused to write the image, complaining about track
1 having unkown length. I dug around for a bit and found xfburn in the
repo, and that worked fine. Here is the output from the cdrecord
session. Any help in figuring out why cdrecord wasn't successful would
be great. In the grand scheme of things, xfburn is great, but I hate it
when the simple fails!
Will
cdrecord v /dev/cd0d NetBSD-10.0-amd64.iso
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.02 2024/03/18 (amd64-unknown-netbsd10.0)
Copyright (C) 1995-2019 Joerg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
SCSI buffer size: 61440
No target specified, trying to find one...
Using dev=31,0,0.
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PLDS '
Identifikation : 'DVD+-RW DS-8A5SH'
Revision : 'XD12'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM.
Current: DVD+R/DL
Profile: DVD+R/DL (current)
Profile: DVD+R
Profile: DVD+RW
Profile: DVD-R/DL sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW sequential recording
Profile: DVD-RW restricted overwrite
Profile: DVD-RAM
Profile: DVD-R sequential recording
Profile: DVD-ROM
Profile: CD-RW
Profile: CD-R
Profile: CD-ROM
Profile: Removable Disk
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc-3 DVD+R driver (mmc_dvdplusr).
Driver flags : NO-CD DVD MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: PACKET SAO
Drive buf size : 817152 = 798 KB
cdrecord: Warning: Cannot read drive buffer.
cdrecord: Warning: The DMA speed test has been skipped.
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data unknown length
Track 02: data 622 MB
cdrecord: Track 1 has unknown length.
cdrecord: Use tsize= option in SAO mode to specify track size.
