On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:57, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
I have downloaded and burned Suse 9.2 Live CD (Gnome version). The problem is, it won't boot. MD5 checksum is correct. I get "searching for boot record on CDROM... not found" message and then system just boots from hard drive. Recently I used the very same CD-RW as bootable CD and it worked.
Is there a way to make the CD boot, maybe using a floppy with some bootlader (syslinux, grub?) as an intermediary?
This is almost certainly a media compatibility or hardware issue.
Maybe, but this kind of error could also show up if the iso-image file was burnt as an ordinary file instead as an iso-image.
Hmmm. I thought data CDs required an iso file system. I've always either used K3B or used mkisofs to prepare an iso image for cdrecord to use. Interesting. Is the burnt file usable? Say I was to burn a large log file to a disk, can I then mount the disk and read the file?
Suppose you have a directory called 'test-dir', containing 1 file called 'README': mkisofs -o test-dir.iso test-dir Now you can mount the file 'test-dir.iso': mkdir mnt mount -o loop test-dir.iso mnt ls mnt . .. readme umount -d test-dir If you burn test-dir.iso as an ordinary file, and you mount the CD to e.g. /media/cdrom, then: ls /media/cdrom . .. test-dir.iso And: mkdir /tmp/mnt mount -o loop /media/cdrom/test-dir.iso /tmp/mnt ls /tmp/mnt . .. readme If you burn test-dir.iso as an iso-image, and you mount the CD to e.g. /media/cdrom, then: ls /media/cdrom . .. readme Cheers, Leen