[sldunix]

Hi Folks,
I've been trying on and off for a really long time to burn bootable Solaris and Linux CDs from iso images, never with any success. Most recently, I've tried with a solaris 9 iso image and the hardware and software shown below, and a CD-R CD. What I think happens is that the iso has two parts, the boot area and the regular data. It burns the boot area onto the non-boot part of the CD, then quits because it doesn't know what to do with the rest of the data. The command I used was "Copy>Burn Images". In Tools>Options>Data, I have the following settings:
Type: Disc at Once (DAO), Closed
Mode: Mode 1
File System: ISO +Joliet (106 character file names)

Just for the heck of it, in the DVD section, I set it to “I only need to use discs for one recording.” Also just for the heck of it, under Tools>Options>Data Archive, I set the Destination File Structure to “Copy file structure from my source selection”.

Should I be using a CD I can write to more than once? Should I be using a different Creator “Module” to do this? There’s a limit to how many CDs I want to waste trying to get this to work, or I’d keep trying different combos.

Here’s the OS and hardware I’m using:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2
AMD Sempron 3000+ 789 MHz
384 MB RAM
TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-L462C
Toshiba MK4025GAS

Here's what I have for the Roxio software itself:
Module Name: Roxio Creator Plus - Dell Edition
Build: 2.4.32a
Serial Number:
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2005

Module Name: PX Engine
Build: 2.2.54a, 68
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2004

Module Name: Launch muvee autoProducer
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2005

Module Name: Roxio RecordNow Audio
Version: 2.0.4
Build: 204B28C, RCP
Serial Number: CQDKR2PD6YT5KBYHS
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2004
Module Name: Home
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2004

Module Name: Roxio RecordNow Data
Version: 2.0.4
Build: 204B37C, RCP
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2004

Module Name: Launch Backup
Build: 204B37C, RCP
Copyright: Sonic Solutions 2004

Module Name: Roxio RecordNow Copy
Version: 2.0.4
Build: 204B28D, RCP

Thanks in Advance,
Sarah

[gi7omy]

Normally to write an iso image to disc, all you need is to insert a blank and open it with 'disc copy' - that should do everything that is needed to write the bootable *nix CD

[gaper1]

just burned the ISO for Ubuntu 6.10 using Burn Image in Roxio Home... restarted the computer and Ubuntu boot menu showed up... If your ISO image is created from a bootable source, no steps are necessary to burn a bootable disc...

[sldunix]

Again, are those of you this is working for using CD-RW disks?

Another big question: could the problem be that I have "Roxio Creator Plus - Dell Edition"? I'm not even sure if that corresponds to EMC 8, but didn't know where else to post this.

I tried this again with a different Solaris iso, same problem. It writes a small amount of data then quits. In this case, it wrote 76 MB. I'm willing to bet this is the boot info. I thought the same thing as those of you who replied- that I ought to be able to simply insert a disk, choose "burn image" and burn a bootable iso image, but no such luck. I'll try this again with a RedHat iso and see what happens, but I have a feeling I'm going to have the same problem. BTW, I can burn a non-bootable Solaris iso no problem.

The basic error message is:
There was a problem writing to the disc. You can try again by clicking the Retry button. You will need another blank disc ready.

Here's the "advanced" error message:
Sense: 02 ASC: 04 ASCQ: 08 (Command 00)
-------------------------------------------------------
Px.dll: 2.2.54.500
pxdrv.dll: 1.1.68.0
PxMas.dll: 2.2.54.500
PxSFS.DLL: 2.2.54.500
PxWave.dll: 2.2.54.500
pxwma.dll: 1.0.0.3

Thanks in Advance,
Sarah

[gi7omy]

To be honest, I've only ever written bootable CDs to CD-R and never tried with CD-RW but I never had any problems with it by using the Disc Copy method.

With the very low price these days of CD-R why not try it - I've found in general that RW discs are never that reliable anyway

[sldunix]

Okay, I *was* able to burn a bootable Red Hat CD, so this has to be a problem with the Solaris iso.

Thanks folks!
Sarah