On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 11:06, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 07:43, 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.
That might be. When I burned the 9.1-Live cd I had to include a boot image along with the ISO for 9.1. I ended up with one non-bootable and one bootable CD, I was using xcdroast.
As a followup to this, I did burn the 9.2 as the only .ISO and it booted up fine. It hung on the pcmcia detect (Dell Latitude D600 with Linksys 2.4 ghz wireless card inserted,) when i rebooted the system after removing the wireless card, it booted but didn't do a great job detecting and auto-setting the display. Mike