suse 10.0 not booting from CD1 or CD2

danrweki · 10-03-2005, 01:13 AM

hallo people. i just acquired 5 cdz for suse linux. well i restarted my computer with cd1 in it but the pc could not find any boot record. cd1 has no boot disk images for me to rawrite. i tried checkin on the internet and no boot disk img for suse 10.0. what can i do? well CD2 has a boot folder with a file called image but still after rawrite it does not boot with the floppy..

Wim Sturkenboom · 10-03-2005, 01:38 AM

An obvious question:
Did you change the boot-sequence in the BIOS?

alfNtexas · 10-03-2005, 01:51 AM

my guess as well...

I burned the iso's to CD-RW at first so i would not waste CD's if I didn't like what I saw but they just didn't want to work very well.. lots of errors so i just bit the bullet and burned them to CD-R and didn't have any problems with the install..

danrweki · 10-03-2005, 05:00 AM

well i changed the boot sequence like this; first the cd rom then floppy then hard disk, when that refused i changed to floppy first cdrom then hard disk. is there no where i can download boot images at all for suse 10.0 i have no cd writer.

alfNtexas · 10-03-2005, 02:12 PM

If you have a knoppix or some other bootable CD, see if it boots... if it does, then my guess is you have some bad CD's.. (CD1 for sure is bad because it SHOULD boot)

Assuming they are bad, your options depend on where/how you got them...

If you burned them yourself, you can try burning CD1 again..
If you ordered them, contact the sit e and see if you can exchange them..

Good Luck..

danrweki · 10-04-2005, 12:37 AM

i still insist that i could use a floppy to boot, any one with an idea where suse 10.0 boot disk images can be got on the internet. i will burn CD1 again, and see what happens

Paul7 · 10-04-2005, 09:23 AM

You Have tried to check your iso-image with MD5 ?
Which version of 10.0 you use ?
I've downloaded beta1 and beta4 they are booting but the following disks had a wrong MD5. Look also at my question suse 9.0 upgrate to 10.0 and grub
Paul