[debian] the cd won't boot

mooron · 04-05-2005, 08:18 PM

ok, so the CD is fine...tried two burns from an iso file. The cd rom is alright because knoppix boots up alright.
The error I get is during the boot sequence after POST and says:
"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Now...could this be because the HD has no formatting done to it, but when the HD is formatted the error of "No system" or whatever is put up there and skips the CD completely

Any help would be much appreciated.

mjrich · 04-05-2005, 08:23 PM

Did you burn it as an image, or as a single file ? Only the first will usually give you a bootable disk.

Cheers,

mj

AltF4 · 04-05-2005, 08:27 PM

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

mooron · 04-05-2005, 08:29 PM

I used nero to burn an image

mjrich · 04-05-2005, 08:47 PM

Did you run a checksum/md5sum of the file before burning the .iso as an image ?

Cheers,

mj

AltF4 · 04-05-2005, 08:51 PM

did you burn the ISO or did you create a data CD containing the xxxx.iso file ?

check the directory of your new CD

just guessing :-)

mooron · 04-05-2005, 08:57 PM

all the md5 checksums are correct - I downloaded them by way of torrents from one of the sites linked from debian.org

and I suppose I should say this is what I think is s390 woody

@AltF4 - I burned an image from the iso file. the directory structure is there.

mjrich · 04-05-2005, 09:08 PM

Quote:

this is what I think is s390 woody

On purpose ? If you have an amd/intel pc then you should be using the i386 image. Better than that though, why not just use the new net-installer for Sarge ?

Cheers,

mj

mooron · 04-05-2005, 09:11 PM

ok, I'll try the sarge installer tomorrow
thanks for the help guys