Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

sean bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Thu Apr 8 20:43:35 UTC 2004


I don't know if this is due to age or difference in access methods.

I have two identical Dell PE 2650's at work.  One reports that it has a
TEAC(via lspci) and the other reports that it has a SAMSUNG.  The TEAC
works but the SAMSUNG does not...More to follow on this I am sure.

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> sean bruno wrote:
> > I am going to attempt to reconstruct the ISO image of FC2T2 and replace
> > the isolinux.bin(syslinux) with the one from FC1 and see if it works.
> 
> That is exactly my schedule for Saturday ;-)
> I will use the isolinux.bin from boot.iso. I keep you posted!
> 
> > I have found that different CDROM drives handle the ISO differently at
> > this point.
> 
> Any idea if this could be an issue of the age of the CDROM drives ?
> i.e. the manufacturers changed something secretly ?
> My CDROM drive is pretty old, installed in a P3/433 celeron...
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 





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