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

From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 10/30/04

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    Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:55:09 +0100
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    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. 

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