Other Help Topics :: Neither DSL or syslinux versions boot from CD

I created the DSL ISO 2.3 CD and I have a bootable CD RW. It went straight into Windows98se.

I created the syslinux CD and same thing.

It's an HP Pavilion XE736 with a Polaroid BurnMAX40 CD-R CD-RW. The option to boot from the CD is above the option to boot from the HDD in the BIOS setup.

I don't have trouble with other CDs booting in that box.

I used the recommended XP Burner Pro software.

Suggestions?

What steps did you take to create the CD?

Quote (mikshaw @ April 28 2006,21:19)

What steps did you take to create the CD?

In Windows

Open up your CD burning application (if you don't have one, get the excellent freeware app CD Burner XP Pro) and install it.

Another small freeware CD-burning program is BurnCDCC.
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With CD Burner XP Pro

When you first run it, you will get a dialog box with 3 options. Choose the one that says "Create a new data CD or create a CD from an ISO image" or something like that. It should be the first option.

Click the File menu, and select "Write Disk from ISO File...". In the window that is opened, click the "..." button and navigate to your ISO image. Set the write speed to 16x or less, to make sure it will boot on picky computers, and, if you don't plan on adding MyDSL extensions in a second burn session, finalize the disk.

Start the burn, and in a few minutes, you should have your new DSL cd.

Quote (geercom @ April 29 2006,09:07)

With CD Burner XP Pro

When you first run it, you will get a dialog box with 3 options. Choose the one that says "Create a new data CD or create a CD from an ISO image" or something like that. It should be the first option.

This looks like it might be providing conflicting information, since it seems to tie together "Create a new data CD" and "Create a CD from an ISO image" as being synonymous. They are not. If you choose "Create a new data CD" your cd will fail to boot properly.

If you did burn as a disk image, then i don't know what to say...haven't heard of anyone being able to boot other cds but not boot a properly made DSL cd.

I think I know what happened. I believe there is a make bootable check box or something I missed. I better check the burner s/w notes/help and try again.

Question: is this going to give me an easy, GUI type interface once I boot into it or what?

D.

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