Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 Live CD won't boot

From: Jeffrey Laramie (suse-linux-e_at_Trans-Star.net)
Date: 10/30/04

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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:43:29 -0400

    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 

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