From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HFPXr-00004r-RI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:47:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l196lPij007829; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:47:25 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l196lOiR007824 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:47:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.4] (c-68-34-70-207.hsd1.md.comcast.net[68.34.70.207]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20070209064722m1400k17f4e>; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 06:47:23 +0000 Message-ID: <45CC18F6.8040608@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:47:18 -0500 From: Kumba User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (Windows/20070116) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Question - Kumba LiveCD RC6 References: <45B4C1D5.2040905@gentoo.org> <855e88d00701220612h670dbb1dud376b605d44aebc5@mail.gmail.com> <45B56F9E.2080606@gentoo.org> <855e88d00701230624q2c525093gdc0ed5c2826739cf@mail.gmail.com> <45B6E73B.1050109@gentoo.org> <855e88d00702020706p5e0e7f6ag1a0829909e2741af@mail.gmail.com> <20070202101630.4899fdaa@gs4073.geos.vt.edu> <855e88d00702020752k59da7db7o4cfa8b6eaa794d08@mail.gmail.com> <855e88d00702070954y6d56cb22j60313ab76e38b214@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <855e88d00702070954y6d56cb22j60313ab76e38b214@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7816c1bc-5a91-4db1-ac54-74a24e8d748e X-Archives-Hash: 4373c9769c30802a08b229d9e6174b69 Mike Martin wrote: > Success! > > I have successfully burnt and booted my SGI Octane from Kumba's X-RC6 > distribution. The trick was in the burning. I was burning it from SUSE > in a DVD burner. For whatever reason, it didn't work. I then tried > burning it using cdrecord under Windows XP. I know everything says you > can't burn the disk in Windows, but it was the only other machine I > had with a burner. It worked. > > For the record I used this file: > http://smithii.com/files/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-w32.zip > downloaded from this site: http://smithii.com/cdrtools > with this command: cdrecord -vv -pad speed=12 dev=1,0,0 -tao > livecd-mips3-gcc4-X-RC6.img > > I've used the disk to boot my Octane and my Indy, both into X without > any other problems. > > Thanks everyone for your help! > Now I just need to figure out how to install and boot from the hard drive! Interesting, what DVD Burner and what burning program? I suspect a DVD drive that has a firmware bug in its handling of burnable CDs. Probably such a subtle thing, QA missed it at the factory, or we're the only kind of setup that triggers it. And we never said Windows was impossible, just no one's every really tried it before and reported success. But you did, since win32 version of cdr-whateveritscallednow will do the trick nicely. --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list