Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-11-05 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
Hi, sorry for the very late reply, but my obsd.misc mail folder has grown to 3000 mails during the last couple weeks while I was busy moving. Anyway, I'm as the original author of said page can confirm (sadly) that you might run into a (known!?) cdboot bug. For some reason cdboot can't boot a DVD

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, I hope you succeed. I'd be very itnerested in a live cd/dvd for obsd. As you say, it's ideal to test hardware, but I don't have to time to do it myself. Btw, why obsd 4.1? Do you plan to upload the iso to some site? There were some projects, like quetzal and olivebsd, but they died, I think.

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> cdbr is listed in the installation instructions as the cdboot loader. > >> cdboot is the second stage boot loader IIRC. Don't hesitate to correct > >> me > >> if I'm wrong here. > > > > Oh, no, that sounds about right, I guess. > >

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
Some additional info: I did install the qemu from package. Running qemu under X gives me this: qemu -cdrom livecd.iso -boot d qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x90b8c35d EAX=fc468900 EBX=ff468aff ECX= EDX

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:06 -0500, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... > >> Relevant in

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
cdbr is listed in the installation instructions as the cdboot loader. cdboot is the second stage boot loader IIRC. Don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong here. Oh, no, that sounds about right, I guess. The help is apprecitated. I'm not trying to make install media (that would actually

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
Just an update...it hangs on the message "Loading /CDBOOT" not cdbr as previously posted. Sorry about that. CC me directly as I am offlist. Ted Goodridge -- Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... I am building a LiveCD/LiveDVD based on OpenBSD 4

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
qemu doesn't work for some reason. Anytime I try and use qemu I get the error "Cannot initialize SDL library..." Yes, I have tried it in different hardware. What exactly do cdbr and cdboot do? I get the screen that says "OpenBSD boot loader" (with the hardware fd1 etc listed), with the "

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... > Relevant info: > --- > I'm burning a re-writable DVD using the above instructions > > The mkisofs command to burn the image is as follows: > > /usr/local/bin/mkis

Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Ted M. Goodridge, Jr.
Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... I am building a LiveCD/LiveDVD based on OpenBSD 4.1 snapshot. I know this is an unofficial page, but I followed the instructions here: http://openbsd-wiki.org/index.php?title=LiveCD I'm using 4.1 because of the libraries required on the