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...get a cookie, a cup of hot tea, and relax a spell....maybe fire up the old Altix box for a space heater and get nice and toasty warm or something.... Sysadmins are still around; the areas in which sysadmins are needed and the skills sysadmins need to have are just changing, that's all. TV repairmen still exist; their skillset just is very different today than what it was a few years back. High-end LED/LCD and plasma TV's are still expensive enough to merit servicing, which most of the time involves module changing, service-remote-driven diagnostic menus, and similar. I still remembe...

Hi, > I don't understand why you say "*But* the El Torito...". I don't see > a difference with what the mkisofs manual says. The manual announces "Mac" for Apple Mac. The program obviously writes Platform Id 1 in this case. The El Torito specs say "Platform ID 0 = 80x86 1=Power PC 2=Mac". In the sum this does not match. A bug in mkisofs would be the

> Hi, > > Ady wrote: > > cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/man/cdrtools-3.01axx/mkisofs.8.html > > Mac Boot entries for the Apple Mac platform. > > Interesting feature. But the El Torito specs of Phoenix and > IBM of 1994 state that "Mac" would be Platform Id 2. > http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/specscdrom.pdf > Page

...oaded both ISO images on http://slint.fr/misc/MacBoot resp. renamed: slint64-14.1-Thomas_mkisofs.iso slint64-14.1-Thomas_xorriso.iso I still don't know if one can boot a Mac off an USB stick with these images dd-ed (and won't be able to check before tomorrow, hoping that one of my computer repairmen neighbors will accept to try, as I own no Mac) At least I did check that there's no apparent regression, as I could boot using each of these two ISO images as virtual CDs on a vmplayer VM (BIOS as well as EFI firmware), off an USB stick on a vmplayer VM with an EFI firmware, and off an USB key...