Re: Booting El Torito: LIL

Strange.  I dunno what could be different.  It works fine on
many machines, you might want to doublecheck and repeat the
process starting with the download.  Have you tried the CD on
other machines to make sure it just didn't get built wrong?

-Tom

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:18:47 +0200
> From: Mogens Kjaer <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Booting El Torito: LIL
>
> Hello,
>
> I can see from the mailing list, that
> others have had the same problem:
>
> Burning tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img
> on a bootable cd, and when it boots,
> you just get "LIL" and nothing else
> happens.
>
> The reason could be that the BIOS on the
> machine can't read 2.88 Mb "floppies"
> from the CD.
>
> This can't be the case for my machine
> (an IBM Netvista), as it boots a RedHat 7.3
> CD fine, this has also a 2.88 Mb boot image:
>
> My tomsrtbt boot directory:
>
> -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      2949120 Jul  5 10:36 tomsrtbt.img
>
> and the boot image on the RedHat CD:
>
> -r--r--r--    2 root     root      2949120 Jul  3 15:33
> dosutils/autoboot/cdboot.img
>
> The files have identical sizes.
>
> I know for sure that the RedHat uses this image to boot
> from as this is a home-made RedHat cd.
>
> Why can redhat boot 2.88 Mb ElTorito CD's, and
> tomsrtbt can't?
>
> Mogens
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> Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark
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