Subject: Re: Producing coasters while trying to create a self boot image
To: Marcus Lindemann <mli@shebang.de>
From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 02/24/2004 14:33:11
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:25:41PM +0100, Marcus Lindemann wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying to create a self boot image. I downloaded the
> dreamcast-kernel.tar.gz from
> http://members.wri.com/josht/dreamcast/dreamcast.html, unpacked it and
> followed the instructions on Marcus Comstedt's page using cdrecord.
> However, the resulting CD-R does not boot on the Dreamcast. I also tried
> to create the serial upload slave as described on Marcus' page,
> producing some more coasters. It seems as if my Dreamcast is one of
> those that will not boot traditional self-boot CDRs. To my surprise I
> found a Nero image of dcDivX (http://www.moosegate.com/betaboy/dcdivx/)
> which my Dreamcast cared to boot from. Does anybody have a hint on what
> I must do to create such an image?
> 
> Thanks
> Marcus

By the way, the version of the page you're looking at is old. The newer page
(still a year or more old now) is at
http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/dreamcast/.

I used burncd under FreeBSD to create my bootable CDs.

Thanks,
Josh
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Josh Tolbert
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