Bug 66182 - CD-ROM not seen as bootable by some boxes
Summary: CD-ROM not seen as bootable by some boxes
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-06-05 22:29 UTC by Alan Cox
Modified: 2008-01-17 17:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:49:02 UTC
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Description Alan Cox 2002-06-05 22:29:31 UTC
Well its kind of pre-ananconda but Im not sure where to file it. On my Palmax
PD1100 the disk is not bootable. It does boot (same disk) on other systems.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-06 16:01:33 UTC
What type of device is this (pcmcia, usb, etc)?

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2002-06-06 16:09:13 UTC
Bog standard IDE CD-ROM. Only known restriction it has is 'no DMA' but the BIOS
knows about that and our boot kernel hasnt kicked off at this point.

Alan


Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-06 16:38:46 UTC
The only factors I know of influencing the booting via the el Torrito mechanism are:

1) BIOS support. We use the 2.88M image option which some BIOSes choose not
   to implement.

2) Your CD media isn't happy with the CD drive.

Seriously I can't think of any other reason this wouldn't work.  You can easily
test this with a 1.44M image by using this command line:

mkisofs -b bootnet.img -c bootcat bootcd/ | cdrecord -d                        
                                                           ev 1,0,0 -v -eject
-blank=fast -

where you've put the bootnet.img into a subdir called 'bootcd'. I do this all
the time instead of making boot floppies :0


Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-06-21 21:18:20 UTC
Also, you can try the test ISO at

http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/debugiso.bin

This uses ISOLINUX instead.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-02 19:01:58 UTC
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have additional information to add.

Comment 6 Alan Cox 2002-08-22 16:34:33 UTC
Isolinux works on the palmax

(It took a while to find out because the PSU blew up in the mean time)


Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:02 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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