Re: Solution: Amiboot not executable from CD
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>On Mar 04, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>> It's possible the flags to mkisofs/mkhybrid are removing the Unix x bits,
>> or that your Amiga CD-ROM driver has to have the Amiga-specific Rock Ridge
>> extensions for a file to recognize it as executable. The former is easily
>> fixable, the latter is impossible to fix without hacking mkhybrid.
>
>OK, the actual problem is: in amigainstall.lha, amiboot is mode 600.
>So, after unpacking it you need to do a ``chmod +x amiboot-5.6'', or
>else you don't get an executable file on the CD. Then you can use the
>mkhybrid -r option (the "rational permissions" option) to make the CD
>without problems.
>From slink_cd_1.12/boot-m68k:
...
# Needs to be executable
chmod a+x amiga/amiboot-5.6
...
And that's been there a while...
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