I put the CD into my Wintel box and when I looked at it, there was indeed
a boot.pmax in the root directory of the CD.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Simon Burge wrote:

> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
> > Do I have to do anything special to write a CD-R in 512-byte sectors under
> > Windows or anything like that?
> 
> Not that I know of, but I've not had much to do with burners.
> 
> > Nero, the program I'm using seems to want
> > to write in 2048-byte sectors.  Does this cause problems for pmax boot?  
> > Whenever I try to boot my 3100 I get an error (I will provide the error if
> > necessary... it isn't in front of me right now) and when I try to boot my
> > 5000/200, I get the following error after the primary bootstrap starts to
> > load:
> > 
> > Can't load '5/rz2//boot.pmax'
> > 
> > followed by a couple of similar error messages with different filenames.  
> > The CD boots just fine on an i386 (it is set up to boot on either).  I
> > would appreciate any help.  Thanks.
> 
> Can you mount the CD and see if there is indeed a boot.pmax in the
> rootfs of the CD?  The first stage prints the "Can't load ..." message,
> so that means you've run installboot successfully.
> 
> Simon.
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