Miles Fidelman wrote:
Hi Folks, I have a debian box and a Lite-On SHM-165PS cd/dvd drive.I'm having a devil of a time burning bootable DVDs - they seem to burn, be readable, but when I try to boot, the system crunches a bit, the drive lite flashes, then boots from the hard drive. (It boots from CDs just fine.)It looks like the default software (Nautilus and whatever is behind that) sets the book-type to DVD-ROM, and from what I gather by googling a bit, that might be my problem - and that I'd have better luck if it was setting book-type to DVD+R. The other suggestion I've received is to update the firmware on my drive.So... a few questions: - is that likely diagnosis?
I like the firmware better, but it depends on your method of *creating* the ISO images. non-bootable images are a more common problem than book type.
- if yes, how might I go about getting things to burn as book type DVD+R? and/or- are there any linux tools that I can use to update the firmware (Lite-On seems to only distribute Windows tools)
There is, but not having used it in a very long time I can't be positive of the current state, or even what tool is maintained these days. The tool I remember was pxupdate from joerg Schilling, and he might be willing to tell you if it is current, where to get the recent version, etc.
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