Burning bootable CDs with XCDRoast

[Brett I. Holcomb]

No - I have it handy and am most familiar with it but I'm not afraid of the 
command line <G>.  I'll check that out and see how to tell it to make it 
bootable.

Ken Moffat wrote:

> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
>>I'm attempting to burn a bootable CD with XCDRoast (.98alpha10) and it's
>>not working.   I have an iso that I need to make into a bootable CD.
>>
>>I follow the docs at the xcdroast.org site and set up the iso under the
>>Write tracks section - it's selected, the layout is accepted and the iso
>>shows up as being selected.
>>
>>I then go to the Master tracks section and set it up for El Torito boot by
>>pointing it to a 1.44 floppy image and telling it to make it bootable.
>>
>>However, when I boot of the CD it says 2.88MB image and then "failed to
>>boot".  I know I'm overlooking something obvious here.  Any help is
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>  
>>
> Are you stuck on xcdroast?
> (Is this too elementary?)
> I usually use the command line ( as root ):
> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 name_of_your.iso
> 
> first determine the device using "cdrecord --scanbus"; mine is device
> 0,0,0, yours may differ. you can try a higher speed...
> 

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