[Trinux-talk] ISO problem on desktops

[dr.kaos <dr...@us...>]

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Matthew,

In trying to determine why the new ISO wouldn't boot on EITHER of my
desktops, I seem to have found the problem.
In "linuxrc," you use a command line that greps through the output
from dmesg to identify a boot device...

The command line greps for "CD-ROM," and on most systems proceeds to
eliminate all but its "hdc" label.
On both of my desktop systems, however, the cdrom (hdc) is _not_
identified as a "CD-ROM," but as a "DVD-ROM."

Thus the query simply does not find the appropriate device to boot
from. I haven't tested this (I will in a minute), but a slight
modification to grep for "-ROM" might well do the trick and allow
booting on any device with a standard cd-rom or newer dvd-rom.

cheers...
- -tb

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