Re: No Luck Booting IBM's

Probably the BIOS can only boot 1.44 images from CDs, and is too
brain-dead to know that it is failing on a 2.88 image.  Try using
a real floppy instead of the CD.  If that is the problem, there
is no simple fix, you could try imaging one as a harddisk but
I've never done ElTorito-harddisk, I only do the ElTorito-2.88.

-Tom

On 29 Apr 2002, Erik Williamson wrote:

> Date: 29 Apr 2002 12:44:14 -0600
> From: Erik Williamson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] No Luck Booting IBM's
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone else had problems booting IBM's (Specifically PL-300 &
> Netvista) ?  I'm Freezing at the LILO prompt (It stops at 'LIL').  I
> should also mention that the same CD has booted other (non-IBM) machines
> quite happily.
>
> So, is there something I should be adding to mkisofs?  I've been digging
> around and have come up with zilch.
>
> Here's my command-line:
> mkisofs -b boot/tomsrtbt-2.0.53.ElTorito.288.img -c boot/boot.catalog -o
> 457-CD.iso 457-CD
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Erik.
>
> PS - Thanks for a rear-end-kicking tool, Tom!
>
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> e r i k   w i l l i a m s o n                     [email protected]
>  system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
>
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