[CentOS] Burning DVDs (was: CentOS 6 x86_64 DVD doesn't boot)

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday, July 15, 2011 09:35:22 AM Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 05:57 +0200, Udo Siewert wrote:
> > A shot in the dark: my DVD image burned by K3B won't also boot. Using
> > Brasero and all was fine. Not reproducable, but worth the attempt.
> 
> I used Brasero: failed to boot.

Brasero and K3B both use growisofs and wodim on the backend.  Burning DVD- is a different process from burning DVD+; substantially different at the physical media, and thus different bugs are exposed.

Jorg Schilling's own cdrecord utilities may work more reliably for DVD- burning (he says they should work better for all burning, but I haven't tested that).  YMMV.  Jorg is not as gracious about the differences and about the issue as I am being here; you can read it all for yourself and decide for yourself what to do about that.... but using his cdrecord suite is guaranteed to make your system not 100% upstream EL compatible.... at least in terms of those utilities.

I know a client of mine has had multiple problems with Brasero and certain brands of media, mostly DVD-, when I haven't had issues, but using DVD+ almost exclusively.  I'm probably going to rip out wodim completely, and try out Jorg's mkisofs and cdrecord instead, and see if that fixes the problem.  But I digress.