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I've been trying to make a boot CD from the 9/6/2014 iso. I tried more |
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than than one iso, from different mirrors, using different computers, |
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and different programs. The result was always something about block 0 |
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is not a valid boot block. |
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So, I tried isomarkboot from Gentoo. No luck. |
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Then I booted an old Debian (5.0 lenny) installation and used their |
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isomarkboot. I just entered isomarkboot file.iso boot/bootlx. This |
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time, it did start to boot. It died with kernel stack not valid and |
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three chevrons. |
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I'm out of CD-Rs. |
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I always figured it was my terrible IDE chip. However, I have a Gentoo |
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CD I marked 5/5/2013 that boots perfectly. So, I have to conclude that |
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my hardware can function. |
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I don't imagine that the aboot package has changed recently. I don't |
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know. My hard drives are SCSI and aboot works for them. I never tried |
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isomarkboot before. |
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I left out any initrd parameters when I tried the Debian isomarkboot. |
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There are initrd parameters passed to the kernels in the aboot.conf file |
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on the CD, but I don't know what isomarkboot needs. |
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I assume the boot CD kernels work. |
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The man page says I can use a loop device or an image file. The |
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question is: |
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What is the proper syntax for running isomarkboot to make a Gentoo |
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install CD? Anything tricky? |
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Note: I ran the sha512sum on one iso file and eyballed the result. It |
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was right. |
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The next iso will probably be out soon. My spindle of CD-Rs should |
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arrive soon too, ha ha. I'll keep trying. |
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Adios, DW |
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