[rescue] More IRIX questions: why won't it boot from my 6.5.24 CDs?

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 17:31, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> Is the CD-ROM drive jumpered to use 512-byte sectors, rather than  
> the usual
> 2048?  This jumper is often called "block" on the drive case.

Ah hah. Changing CDROM drives to 512-byte sectors fixes this. (I  
don't think that my first drive had such a jumper... I couldn't find  
one, anyway)

  - Micah