On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Gene McCulley wrote:

> I need some help.  I went out and bought a Dreamcast yesterday specifically to
> use for development.  It is the Smash Pack version and I got it at Best Buy.
> I ordered the broadband adapter and a keyboard, but won't have them for at
> least a week.  In the meantime, I thought I would try to burn a bootable CD to
> make sure that I could.  I followed the very well put together instructions at
> http://mc.pp.se/dc/ as I have only Linux on the machines I use for
> development.
>
> So far, I have made three coasters.  Or at least they seem to be useless.
> Once I reset the Dreamcast with any of these CDs in the drive, it drops into
> the CD player on track 2.
>
> I have checked each of them and they seem fine.  The first session is an audio
> track and the second is an ISO filesystem which can be mounted under Linux.
> The first 32KB of the filesystem are bitwise identical to the IP.BIN used for
> each of them.  The first two were from the binary distribution of the Stars
> demo and the third was DreamSNES.
>
> I've dug through various mailing list archives and I keep seeing references to
> possible versions of the Dreamcast that will not boot of off a CD-R.  Is it
> possible that mine is one of these?  It has a serial number of DU086762861.
> Is there any way to tell?
>
> On the machine doing the burning, I am running version 1.8 of cdrecord and
> version 1.8 of mkisofs.  The machine is running Linux kernel 2.2.9.  The drive
> is a SCSI TEAC CD-R55S.
>
> Any clues would be appreciated.
>
> Is there any active IRC channel for people messing with Dreamcast development?

I don't know if there is/was/etc., but it seems to me like #netbsd-dc on
irc.OpenProjects.net would be suitable?

>
> --
> Gene McCulley            http://enki.org/~mcculley/
>

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