Can't boot cd

[John Thompson]

James Kuyper wrote:

> I went to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/#room and
> successfully followed the instructions there to
> download the ISO images for disks 1-4. I followed the
> link to
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/getting-started-guide/s1-disks-cdrw.html
> and successfully followed the instructions there to
> use X-CD-Roast to create the CDs. I extracted the
> boot.iso file from the first disk, and used the same
> techniques to create a supposed "boot" disk from
> boot.iso. However, I can't actually boot from it.
> 
> I know precisely how to configure the BIOS for my
> computer to allow it to boot from the CD-rom, and I've
> successfully used it to boot from other CDs, including
> the RH 8.0 installation disk. I can't get it to boot
> from this one.
> 
> Does the procedure given at the link above, need to be
> modified to produce a bootable disk?

I just tried booting from the boot.iso image and it worked fine, but I 
didn't use X-CDRoast.

Why not burn the image directly and try again:
"cdrecord -v dev=3,1,0 -fs=16m driveropts=burnfree -eject 
/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.iso"

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)