[rescue] Re: Iris 5.3CD

[Kevin]

It's an external Plextor with the 512 block switch. 
I've never tried to boot anything but silver IRIX cds
and the CDR copy.

/KRM

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:57:21 +1200
Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> > I tried dd/cdrecord on a 5.3 CD and it didn't work
> > at all for me (wouldn't boot and the recorded CD
> > only showed one partition, the original worked
> > fine.)  The explanation i was given at the time was
> > that my problems were due to EFS and multiple
> > partitions.
> >
> > In that case, i don't know where i fsck'd up at.
> >
> > /KRM
> 
> 
> What type of drive were you booting the 5.3 CD on?
> I've found that a lot of older CD-ROM drives don't
> play nicely with CD-R disks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gavin
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