Re: baffled .. the 2019-01-27 debian-10.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso not bootable
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 01:28:20PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 4/6/19 2:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > It???s *possible* that the DVD drive in the dual-socket machine is not able to boot from DVD-RW. (I have seen this before occasionally)
> >
> > Try burning to a DVD-R
>
> Oh that is just wild. Just an off the wall wild idea.
>
> Thank you for that as I was really beginning to suspect hardware.
>
> I have a pile of DVD+RW dual Layer media and maybe .. maybe somewhere a
> DVD-R kicking around. Really .. who uses this stuff anymore ever since
> the USB thumbdrive thing was invented?
I know this thread is old, but I wanted to give some input. The original
optical drives in the early G5 systems don't officially support DVD-RW.
I'm pretty sure I got mine to read some of them, but it's unreliable.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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