Unable to create bootable dvd

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:17:36 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> 
> On Tue, March 21, 2017 11:04 am, James B. Byrne wrote:
> > On Mon, March 20, 2017 14:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> >> My hunch is: option "-dvd-compat" screws things up making it not
> > bootable.
> >> That option is only relevant to creation of video DVD ROMs
> >> (main goal of it is re-arrange the track so that table of
> >> contents files are the first onces along the track - which
> >> is necessary in stand alone DVD players).
> >> I do use this command all the time to burn bootable media
> >> (FreeBSD, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu...) and all of them work
> >> well for me. I do not use "-speed" option, but it shouldn't
> >> matter, and using slowest speed as you specify may help getting
> >> best possible quality of burn result. Anyway,
> >> here is command line from my command history:
> >> growisofs -Z
> >> /dev/dvd=/data/system-media/debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso
> >> I hope, this helps.
> >> Valeri
> >
> > I created multiple dvds, some with and some without -dvd-compat and
> > -speed=1.  There was no apparent difference in effect.  I had similar
> > problems with usb flash media.  Funnily enough I had no problem with
> > either medium if I used FreeBSD-10.3 images.
> 
> Aha, then I was wrong about -dvd-compat screwing it up when you burn
> image, not a collection of files... You learn something every day; thanks
> for sharing.

I've been using -dvd-compat in combination with image files
and never had a problem with booting (live system image ISOs).
In "man growisofs", one of the examples explicitely reads:

	To use growisofs to write a pre-mastered ISO-image to a DVD:

	    growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso

So this seems to be the correct usage...





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