Re: changing book-type on dvd burn?
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> 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.)
Maybe you did use a broken mkisofs variant from Debian?
Did you try the official mkisofs from
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
> 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.
If you suspect readability problems, run "readcd meshpoints=20" and
check whether readcd reports errors or whether the read speed does not
monotonically increasee.
> So... a few questions:
>
> - is that likely diagnosis?
no
> - if yes, how might I go about getting things to burn as book type DVD+R?
I am not sure what kind of software you really used for writing. I recommend to
use the original cdrecord and check again.
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
Jörg
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