Re: cdboot, mfs_root and mount_cd9660

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:59:40 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Geoff Buckingham wrote:

> For reasons I wont bore people with, I am trying to produce a bootable CD
> using /boot from 5.2 (minus kernel and modules) boot a 4.9 kernel and
> mfs_root.

Just a 5.2 loader(8)?

> This works fine however once booted trying to mount the iso9660 fs from the
> CD produces the error:
>
> cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument

If this was actually -current, there is no /dev/acd0c there; its just
/dev/acd0.

Perhaps the cdrom drive is having issues?

> booting the same kernel and mfs_root bits from a 4.9 pxeboot via tftp I
> am able to succesfully mount the same CD on the same hardware (DL 360
> G1)

This tends to imply the cdrom drive is defective.
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Received on Fri Jan 23 2004 - 11:00:08 UTC

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