Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
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]
Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type. any suggestions on how to make sure I'm creating a bootable image - the providers claim they are (I've now downloaded three different ISO images that purport to be bootable - a SUSE LiveDCD, an xploraknoppix LiveDVD, and a Solaris LiveDVD) First try to write a (checked) bootable CD image to a DVD. If this succeeds, then either the other images are defective or the boot prom has problems with booting from higher block addresses and the image was created with the wrong options. 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]
Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
Joerg Schilling wrote: Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type. any suggestions on how to make sure I'm creating a bootable image - the providers claim they are (I've now downloaded three different ISO images that purport to be bootable - a SUSE LiveDCD, an xploraknoppix LiveDVD, and a Solaris LiveDVD) First try to write a (checked) bootable CD image to a DVD. If this succeeds, then either the other images are defective or the boot prom has problems with booting from higher block addresses and the image was created with the wrong options. I updated the firmware on the DVD drive and all is now working. (pulled the drive, stuck it in my kids' windows box, ran the updater) Thanks! Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
Miles Fidelman 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.) 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. So... a few questions: - is that likely diagnosis? I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type. - if yes, how might I go about getting things to burn as book type DVD+R? and/or - are there any linux tools that I can use to update the firmware (Lite-On seems to only distribute Windows tools) There is, but not having used it in a very long time I can't be positive of the current state, or even what tool is maintained these days. The tool I remember was pxupdate from joerg Schilling, and he might be willing to tell you if it is current, where to get the recent version, etc. -- E. Robert Bogusta It seemed like a good idea at the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
Rob Bogus wrote: Miles Fidelman 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.) 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. So... a few questions: - is that likely diagnosis? I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type. any suggestions on how to make sure I'm creating a bootable image - the providers claim they are (I've now downloaded three different ISO images that purport to be bootable - a SUSE LiveDCD, an xploraknoppix LiveDVD, and a Solaris LiveDVD) I've tried burning with the default software included in Debian Etch (Nautilus file manager, right click). I also just installed k3b and burned the SUSE LiveDVD again. Same failure to boot. Also looks like it burned as book-type DVD-ROM. K3b, and whatever's behind it, seem smart enough to recognize that my drive can write DVD+R, but I can't quite figure out if there are config options I should be setting to: - make the image bootable (e.g, do I need to set any of the el torito related parameters?) - set the book type Thanks again, Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing book-type on dvd burn? [SOLVED]
Rob Bogus wrote: Miles Fidelman 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.) - is that likely diagnosis? I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type. updating the firmware fixed the problem - turns out I was burning DVDs just fine, but the drive wasn't recognizing them pulled the drive, stuck it in my kids' windows machine, ran the flash utility, put the drive back in my tower - and now it boots just fine thanks all Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
