Re: No Luck Booting IBM's

Thanks for getting back so quickly - 

Hmmm... Using a floppy works fine!  I'll take a peek into
eltorito-harddisk I suppose.


On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:58, Tom Oehser wrote:
> 
> 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!
> >
> > --
> > 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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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