On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:36 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: >> On 1/12/11 1:16 PM, David Riches wrote: >> > Purely out of curiosity (and my involvement in multiboot-media- >> > creator) any chance of specifics where the box would not boot from the >> > cd with grub, but would when it was installed? >> > >> > Our testing with mmc hasn't shown this behavior is all, so I would >> > appreciate more info >> > >> > Thanks in advance >> >> Hrm, apparently my memory is failing me. Nobody else remembers doing >> the grub on a CD test way back when, but they all seem to indicate that >> it is a bad idea with grub(1), and grub2 is just too untested. > > Remember, this isn't a CD medium. It's of a size that's only going to > fit on a dual-layer DVD or a USB stick. So the relevant scenarios are > not 'any system with an optical drive' but 'systems likely to have > dual-layer capable DVD drives' (or, I guess, BD drives) and USB booting, > which is I believe rather different from CD/DVD booting? IIRC dual-layer DVDs are actually written into the DVD standard. If you have a DVD logo on the drive it must be capable of reading dual layers. Writing dual-layer DVD's is a different matter entirely, and reading burnt dual layer DVDs is hit or miss. But pressed DVDs typically don't have those problems. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
