Re: 10.2 DVD won't boot



John Bowling wrote:
2 different systems, one 64 bit and the other 32 bit.
Both are running 10.1 currently, and the install DVD's for 10.1 will
both boot in their respective machines. They even will come up with the
grub boot selection screen. The 10.2 disks will not even display that
screen.

Are the iso's on the OpenSuse web site corrupted?

The DVD's were made with k3b on the 64 bit machine after downloading
overnight on separate nights with that machine. The 64 bit version was
download from the OpenSuse site three days ago and the 32 bit version
began this morning at about 1:00 AM Phoenix AZ time. Apparently
checksums are only available if you use a restartable download process.
I used Firefox (1.5.0.8 from Suse or Packman update site). There were
no errors shown during download. The copy to DVD was done with
verification, and they both came out binary equals.

I used that identical process to make the DVD's for 10.1, only I was
running 10.0 at the time.

How have others managed to make bootable DVD's?

Thanks, John

Ok, I think I have discovered that it was my own dumb mistake.
I did both of the DVDs by plopping the iso image into it - that works
for coping files intact - so it puts the iso on the DVD as an file.
Now I'm doing it by using the menu process for burning an iso.
.



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