Re: Bugs against Debian CD's
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:18:07PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:33:50AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Le Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:17:23PM -0700, David Whedon ?crivait:
> > > Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:53:23PM +0200 wrote:
> > > > Against what package should bugs be filed regarding problems with the Debian
> > > > official CD-Roms ? I'm not refering to bugs in boot-floppies but rather
> > > > CD-ROMs not detected as 'bootable' by some systems.
> > > debian-cd
> >
> > That's not sure. debian-cd does nothing apart from using
> > boot-floppies image to build El Torito CD images.
> >
> > I guess that if the CD are not detected as bootable it's because the
> > specific hardware doesn't support bootable CD. It's neither debian-cd's fault
> > nor boot floppies's fault.
> >
>
> No. I had what I suppose is the same problem with the initial potato CDs
> (r0, I haven't tried later releases). The boot CD just would not boot in my
> Toshiba laptop (others with Toshiba seemed to get this problem too). Your
> conclusion would be fair, except that the slink CDs booted on the same
> machine perfectly fine.
IIRC, the El Torito image for slink was a 1.44 Mo one, while the potato is a
2.88 Mo. If I'm not mistaken, this can be the source of the problem, the
BIOS on some machines emulating just 1.2 or 1.44 Mo floppy images via El
Torito.
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