I'm getting itchy, and even though my 9.1 upgrade has shipped, I wanted to start playing, so I downloaded the LiveCD-9.1.iso, and burned it to a CD, but it is not detected as a bootable CD on two different systems. The .iso file I downloaded computes to the same md5sum as the value in MD5SUMS. The CD I burned passes a 'verify' check against the .iso file. I actually tried this twice, once with Xcdroast, and again with cdrecord, but neither copy will boot. ANybody else encountered this, or can pass me a clue? -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Rick Green wrote:
I'm getting itchy, and even though my 9.1 upgrade has shipped, I wanted to start playing, so I downloaded the LiveCD-9.1.iso, and burned it to a CD, but it is not detected as a bootable CD on two different systems. The .iso file I downloaded computes to the same md5sum as the value in MD5SUMS. The CD I burned passes a 'verify' check against the .iso file. I actually tried this twice, once with Xcdroast, and again with cdrecord, but neither copy will boot. ANybody else encountered this, or can pass me a clue?
I haven't had that problem, but while mine boots, it fails to work on 3 of 3 computers I've tried it on.
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 06:03 pm, James Knott wrote:
Rick Green wrote:
I'm getting itchy, and even though my 9.1 upgrade has shipped, I wanted to start playing, so I downloaded the LiveCD-9.1.iso, and burned it to a CD, but it is not detected as a bootable CD on two different systems. The .iso file I downloaded computes to the same md5sum as the value in MD5SUMS. The CD I burned passes a 'verify' check against the .iso file. I actually tried this twice, once with Xcdroast, and again with cdrecord, but neither copy will boot. ANybody else encountered this, or can pass me a clue?
I haven't had that problem, but while mine boots, it fails to work on 3 of 3 computers I've tried it on. ============
Hey guys! Let's see if we can find some common ground here, as I have had this problem as well. The 9.1 LiveCD works fine on my system AthlonXP, 768mb, 40mb drive, dvd, cdrw, ATI 9200, in fact quite well, but on a system I have on the table, converting a customer to Linux, it will not boot! The system is a 533mhz Celeron Gateway computer, with built-in graphics, using shared memory, and sound. It has 256mb ram, hard drive is about 7gb, but there is about 5gb free after installing SuSE 9.0 on it. The cdrom is of adequate speed and the cd's I've tried were burned with k3b. All 3 cds I have burned work fine on my system. Now one thing I've tried that sometimes works did not this time. Sometimes in burning a cd at the max speed of your burner, 24x +, some cdroms do not or are not able to read the cd, so I drop the burn speed down to 12x or slower. As I mentioned, this did not help this time. There must be something about the hardware setups that is not allowing the LiveCD to boot or restricting it or something the LiveCD is not seeing it needs. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
Well, my desktop systems, with an Athlon 1700+ locks up solid. My ThinkPad R31 gets as far as PCMCIA and my work computer, a K6 gets a bit further, but I don't recall how far. I also checked the image with md5sum, and used diff to compare the CD with the ISO image. BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 06:03 pm, James Knott wrote:
Rick Green wrote:
I'm getting itchy, and even though my 9.1 upgrade has shipped, I wanted to start playing, so I downloaded the LiveCD-9.1.iso, and burned it to a CD, but it is not detected as a bootable CD on two different systems. The .iso file I downloaded computes to the same md5sum as the value in MD5SUMS. The CD I burned passes a 'verify' check against the .iso file. I actually tried this twice, once with Xcdroast, and again with cdrecord, but neither copy will boot. ANybody else encountered this, or can pass me a clue?
I haven't had that problem, but while mine boots, it fails to work on 3 of 3 computers I've tried it on.
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Hey guys!
Let's see if we can find some common ground here, as I have had this problem as well. The 9.1 LiveCD works fine on my system AthlonXP, 768mb, 40mb drive, dvd, cdrw, ATI 9200, in fact quite well, but on a system I have on the table, converting a customer to Linux, it will not boot!
The system is a 533mhz Celeron Gateway computer, with built-in graphics, using shared memory, and sound. It has 256mb ram, hard drive is about 7gb, but there is about 5gb free after installing SuSE 9.0 on it. The cdrom is of adequate speed and the cd's I've tried were burned with k3b. All 3 cds I have burned work fine on my system. Now one thing I've tried that sometimes works did not this time. Sometimes in burning a cd at the max speed of your burner, 24x +, some cdroms do not or are not able to read the cd, so I drop the burn speed down to 12x or slower. As I mentioned, this did not help this time.
There must be something about the hardware setups that is not allowing the LiveCD to boot or restricting it or something the LiveCD is not seeing it needs.
Lee
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BandiPat
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James Knott
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Rick Green