User Feedback :: A problem with 0.7.2 bootability?

I ran into the same thing last night, the cd I burnt on an Intel 500 64 ram, booted fine.

Trying it on an AMD 450 384 ram failed, just booted into XP, I figured it might be that the CDRW I used was fast erased rather then a full erase as I have run into booting problems w/ DSL and Feather with a fast erase.

There was no cd activity at all after the initial power on.

Have'nt had the time to reburn, I'll post after I do.

roadie

ke4nt1 & John,

OK, here's a little more precision regarding what's happening with the boot. I'll turn on the machine, and, as the RAM count is developing, I'll place the DSL CD in the tray and push it in. At the conclusion of the BIOS routines, the CD will attempt to boot, I'll hear it's characteristic booting "noise", there will be a repetition of the booting "noise" and then the message "Boot Failed". Ordinarily, there would not be a repetition of this "noise, the initial screen of whatever I might be booting simply would appear. Thinking that the boot image might be faulty, I used rawrite to make a copy of it to a floppy. The floppy with the image alone will boot into initial DSL display so the image would seem to be OK. But the CD with the very same image dies. Odd, isn't it.

jlowell

I have seen my DSL CDRW will sometimes not be detected as a bootable CD disk.

Usually, trying again (sometimes after a cold boot with the disk already loaded into the drive) will cause the disk to boot properly.

I have not seen this problem with my CD-R (not CD-RW) DSL disk.

OK, the md5sum situation appears problematic.

Here is the output from

rawread /dev/cdrom | md5sum

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

Where do we go from here?

jlowell

Looks like your burn is bad, or at least it isn't readable from that CD drive. I've seen this before, where a CD will boot fine from one computer, but not be readable on another. It happens more with CDRWs.

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