booting from newly burned CD
Steven C. Liu
sliu at steven-c-liu.com
Tue Sep 28 03:24:18 UTC 2004
I am closer to what I need to do. That is, I was able to get the BIOS to
recognize my CDRW disc as bootable. I did this from w/in XP by using some
software called Sonic RecordNow!. The program asked me to insert a bootable
floppy, so I stuck in an old boot floppy of RH 7.3. So, now the PC does try
to boot up via the CDRW (the drive on the target PC is not a CDRW drive) and
I get the following error message:
<much "normal" stuff deleted>
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:08: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Invalid session number or type of track
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:08: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:08, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:08
<and then it just stays here>
BTW, I wouldn't be offended if someone held my hand a little bit here. It
seems silly that I can't make a properly booting CD for FC2 from a
(different) PC running XP Pro.
TIA,
Steve
-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:45:32 +0300
From: Andrey Andreev <andreev at cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: booting from newly burned CD
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <4157A8FC.9080603 at cs.helsinki.fi>
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Steven C. Liu wrote:
> Pardon this very newbie question, but I just burned all four CD's
> (FC2-i386-discN.iso) onto a CDRW drive on a XP Pro machine and want to
> use disc1 to boot up and begin the config process for a clunky leftover
> PC of mine. I did go into setup to verify that the CD ROM drive is in
> the boot sequence, and is before the C drive.
You have to use "Burn image" in your recording software, instead of just
copying the *.iso file to the drive.
When you Explore your CDRW in XP, you shall be seeing a whole lot of
files on it, not just the .iso file.
Hope this helps,
//Andro
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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science
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