CD Boot Problem

[Preston Boyington]

sounds like the cd media you burned has an error. this can be caused by a
manufacturing error on the cd. burn another cdrom and give it a try. also,
try not burning at full speed. sometimes people burn disks that are rated
12x at 30x+ and will make cd's that behave like you describe.

Preston

-----Original Message-----
From: Mustafa Al-Shawaf [mailto:alshawaf@uiuc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:49 AM
To: [email]debian-user@lists.debian.org[/email]
Subject: CD Boot Problem


I am trying to install Debian on my computer. I used jigdo to get the iso.
Then I burned the iso to cd. When I try to boot from the cd, the drive
spins up then spins down a lot. Sometimes I get a message from the BIOS
that there was a boot failure. Other times, It starts booting, but then I
get a message from the software on the cd that there was an error and that I
should try again. When I try to access the cd on another os, It is
accessible, but it spins up and down a lot. Also when I try to small text
files on the cd sometimes there is a long delay (45 sec or more). The drive
works well with other cds though. I'm not sure what is wrong.

MA

[Jesse Meyer]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Mustafa Al-Shawaf wrote:

> I am trying to install Debian on my computer. I used jigdo to get the
> iso. Then I burned the iso to cd. When I try to boot from the cd,
> the drive spins up then spins down a lot. [ ... snip ... ]
> The drive works well with other cds though. I'm not sure what is wrong.

By "other cds", do you mean other burned cds, or regular pressed cds?

I've seen some rather old CD drives (usually found on pentium and
earlier computers) have problems with CD-R/CD-RW cds while working fine
with regular cds.

Another suggestion would be to check the block size if you are burning
an iso image.

~ Jesse Meyer

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