Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
On Saturday 30 October 2004 08:20, Tomasz Frelik wrote:
Hello,
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. Many CD-ROMs have problems booting off of burned disks and some older CD-ROMs just don't boot at all. Try burning the disk at a slower speed or on different (higher quality?) media. IIRC the floppy boot images are on the disk so you should be able to make boot floppies if you need to.
Jeff
I've had this problem on an old laptop a few years ago, it turned out to be that it objected to the CD-RW on which it was burned, I found I had to use CD-R's, it just couldn't handle rewriteables, so now I burn anything bootable on CD-R and use CD-RW for anything that doesn't need to be bootable. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====