Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[sean bruno]

That is what I found in my initial examination.

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.

I have found that different CDROM drives handle the ISO differently at
this point.

Cross your fingers.

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 12:39, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> sean bruno wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for working on this one!
> > 
> > It's good to know that others are looking at it, however I am more
> > interested in the causal failure here...
> > 
> > The CD can be booted on some CD readers, but not others.
> > 
> > This is what I would like to have solved.
> 
> Hi Sean!
> 
> I just compared the contents of /isolinux/ in boot.iso and the .iso
> of FC2test2 and the only files which are slightly different are:
> 
> boot.cat
> ********
> FC2test2:
> bytes 28 and 29: 03 06
> boot.iso
> bytes 28 and 29: 79 05
> 
> isolinux.bin
> ************
> FC2test2:
> bytes 12 and 13: 03 06
> boot.iso
> bytes 12 and 13: 79 05
> 
> I'm not sure if this is of relevance, but just to mention it...
> 
> I made a bootable CD myself a few months ago and never encountered such
> a strange behavior (all attempts to boot my CD worked well on the machine
> I'm currently installing FC2 on).
> 
> I used this:
> 
> CDIMAGE=cdimg
> ISO=my.iso
> mkisofs -o $ISO -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
>   -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l \
>   -R -r $CDIMAGE
> 
> Does anyone know how the current test2 iso's were built ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
> 
> 
> 
>