Re: How to burn BOOTABLE iso-image with Nero v6.x?

From: Clive Dove (chdove_at_rogers.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:25:30 -0400

David Cook wrote:

> (Sigh. Another 'burn' goes in the trash...it doesn't boot.)
>
> I recently upgraded my Nero burn-software from V5.x to
> V6.x. Now I might have to learn how to burn bootable
> ISO images from ground zero again.
>
> I'm not even sure which questions to ask. Should my first
> question be how to tell if a downloaded Linux ISO image
> is SUPPOSED to come out bootable? Or should my
> question be "Is there something new in V6.x of Nero in
> regards to choosing all those parameters that can break
> the 'bootability' of a burned ISO?"
>
> OK, let's start at the beginning: [I am totally new to
> this 'Knoppix' notion...not sure if it is yet another
> distro (like Redhat, Mandrake, SuSE) or just one
> of those, but with a twist.]
>
> So, I downloaded the single ISO image of Knoppix,
> burned it with my (new V6.x) edition of Nero, and
> when I re-start my machine with that just-burned CD
> in the generic drive (I've booted other known-bootable
> CDs from this drive), but now I do NOT get the usual
> 'Hit any key to boot from the CDROM...' from my
> BIOS.
>
> So, it must have been in 'incorrect' burn in some way.
> (Or, can any download-setup things cause loss of bootability?)
>
> When I read the FAQ-like info on howto burn ISOs
> on the Knoppix website (even in Nero-versions-specific
> writeup) there is NO EXPLICIT mention at all about doing
> anything special for 'bootability'.
>
> Any ideas where I might be going wrong?
>
> Cheers...
>
> Dave

Google is your friend.
Look at this location:
http://www.wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html

Note that your selection is "burm image". This is because the iso file
is actually an image of the whole disk.

Once the image is burned onto the disk, the disk should be bootable but
there have been problems with disk1 and some types of cd devices.
Mandrake recommends in those cases that you boot from disk 2 and then
switch to disk 1.

You should check every iso image against the md5 file that is included
in the mirror directory from which you fetched the iso images. The
program to do so in linux is md5sum. You should find a windows
equivalent to this program so that you can assure yourself that the
images that you downloaded are accurate copies of the originals.

Clive

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