Can't boot from CD

[Mark Haney]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:48 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just burned FC3 iso1 (x86) onto a CD_RW (having first checked the
> md5 sums of the isos), and attempted to
> boot. It won't boot from the CD-ROM drive (I turned off all other
> devices to make sure, and got "Operating system not found".)
> 
> Suspecting the burning process, I tried booting of a previous RedHat
> CD - same result.
> 
> So it appears to be some kind of hardware problem. 
> 
> I installed FC1 and FC2 from this same drive, so it ought to work.
> 
> The CDROM drive is enabled for booting in the BIOS (apparently - it's
> a Phoenix BIOS). Is there anything else I need to do, or are there any
> diagnostics that I can run?
> 
> If not, is there another way of installing? (I only burned iso 1,
> intending to access the other iso images from my /home partition,
> which is what I did for FC2)

Can you view the contents of the CD?  If you see the .ISO file on there,
then it was burned wrong.  You need to burn the image, not the ISO.
There's a big difference and I suspect that's where the problem is.

> -- 
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire
> 

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel: 2.6.9-1.667 GNU/Linux 
10:51:04 up 3:17, 2 users, load average: 1.57, 1.32, 1.24 

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