[Mactel-linux-devel] Bulding a live CD

[Thomas G. <sit...@st...>]

Hello,
I build a life CD a long time ago using a shell script to make it 100%
reproducable (I hated to adopt knoppix again and again when a new one
was released). However this morning I tried to adopt this live cd for Mac
Mini and ran into two problems:

        - First the absolut showstopper: Mac Mini doesn't work with the
          cdrom. Has anybody the CDROM under Linux on Mac Mini working?
          hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache

        Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
        hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
        hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
        ...

        I don't remeber from memory what that flag in ireason means but
        I look it up later in the ATAPI spec.

        - And the not so hard showstopper was: How do I get a Linux
          kernel/initrd/elilo/refit compilation on a cd so such my apple
          will boot from it when I press c during boot? Are there some
          instructions available or could someone tell me how to get
          there?

Sincerely,
        Thomas