Boottable DMG Woes

cordtripper · #1 March 23rd, 2005, 12:42 AM

alright I have a boottable dmg dvd, which I need to burn. Now I know that I must use disk copy, which is fine. whenever I try to burn the disk, it gives me a dreaded device drained its buffer without burn protection. if I burn the same image on toast, its fine exept, it isnt bootable. ive tried 4 different media types of dvd-r (Rytek G4, Memorex, Maxell, and Verbatims) no avail. I know the burner is good because it works fine in toast, and its the same pioneer 106A, that I had on my pc just a couple of months ago. any help with this little conundrum, would be greatly appreciated.

P.S.
Ive fixed permisions on the drive aswell as repaired the disk and zapped the pram I even defraged it and ran tech tool pro. Heck I even reinstalled osx and nothing

akkaelprince · #2 March 23rd, 2005, 02:33 AM

try to use disk copy but without monuting the image
i.e: just choose the image without mounting it.
if it was not an image
use toast with copy command
dont use mac volume just copy..
good luck

albloom · #3 March 23rd, 2005, 08:23 AM

Have you tried burning at 1x? That "buffer under-run" message
says you're not feeding data to the drive fast enough, so slow
down the drive.

cordtripper · #4 March 23rd, 2005, 11:21 AM

I have tried burning it at 1x and same problem and I doo not mount the image before I burn it, toast will not make bootable discs.

ElDiabloConCaca · #5 March 23rd, 2005, 05:52 PM

What's the DMG of? Maybe we can help if we knew what was on it -- is it OS X-bootable or OS 9-bootable?

cordtripper · #6 March 29th, 2005, 02:24 PM

well im trying to make a copy of the panther disc that came with my g5 but it doesent really matter because I cant burn anything using disc utility no matter what dmg I try to burn it always fails I can only burn using toast.

perfessor101 · #7 March 29th, 2005, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cordtripper

well im trying to make a copy of the panther disc that came with my g5 but it doesent really matter because I cant burn anything using disc utility no matter what dmg I try to burn it always fails I can only burn using toast.

This puts a sharper point or at least a different point on your question.

What version of OS X are you using?
What modelf a Mac do you have?
How much RAM?
How big is the boot drive?
How much free space is on the boot drive?
Is the DVD burner factory installed?
If it is not factory installed, what make and model is it?
Is it internal or external?

For what it is worth I have not heard of anyone successfully creating a bootable OS X DVD or CD from images or any other way, using Disk Utility, Finder, or Toast. The sole exception has been images created with BootCD and I do not know what BootCD does that makes it work.

albloom · #8 March 29th, 2005, 04:58 PM

I suspect you've done something terribly stupid and deserve to die -- Joking!!!

I know it can be done because I've done it. I'm staring at three Imation CDs that
are copies of the Panther retail install CDs. I did it creating a new image in Disk
Utility with the "CD/DVD Master" option. And I burned those puppies at max speed.
From Disk Utility.

But that's CDs. Maybe DVDs are different.