Re: changing book-type on dvd burn? [SOLVED]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Rob Bogus wrote:
> 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.)
> >
> > - 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.
updating the firmware fixed the problem - turns out I was burning DVDs 
just fine, but the drive wasn't recognizing them

pulled the drive, stuck it in my kids' windows machine, ran the flash 
utility, put the drive back in my tower - and now it boots just fine

thanks all

Miles