One problem after the next lately, after burning a Mandriva LE 2005 DVD ISO (to update compile issue with Mandrake Community 10.1) and burning this ISO image onto a DVD-R (4different times because it kept failing when I would try to burn it, 20%, 36% and so on), the Mandriva DVD will not boot up in any of my computers.

I do not know why I had such a problem burning the blank DVD-R's ISO, I can only assume that the write speed on the box of my blank DVD-R's said the write speed for the DVD's was only 1X and it appears I was trying to burn the other blank DVD-R's in auto-mode (up to speed of 4X ) , anyway I kept getting an error message each time I would try on the other blank DVD-R's and I have some nice coasters, and almost threw in the towel trying to burn this DVD ISO.

That being said, the lowest burn speed I could lower my K3B burner to was the 2X speed, so what the hell right, I'd try it at this speed and see what would happen. Well when I tried this burn speed of 2X, it finally burned a Mandriva DVD ISO , of 2087MB, which I presume it burned successfuly. It appears to be slightly over 2 gigabytes, however as stated when I try to boot with this made DVD in either of my PC's, it never boots up into the installation mode.

So what might be going on here?

Thanks....

Is it just Murphy's Law I presume?

d-1

Did you check the md5 checksum on the ISO?

Look at the contents of the dvd you burned, if it only shows one ISO file, you didn't burn correctly. The ISO file has to be burnt to the dvd as a cd image, not a normal file. You should see 7 directories and 12 files on the root directory of the dvd.

Yes

I was finally able to burn the Mandriva DVD ISO, my problem was, apparently the DVD's I used were just garbage, they were 1X's and the lowest setting I could burn with K3B was 2X. I purchased some 8X DVD's and it burned with no problems.

Problem # 2 now, I can view the contents of this DVD ISO on my other PC, but not the one I am having problems with Manrake 10.1 community. I tried booting off the DVD on this PC and it wont boot. I messed around with my BIOS and still nothing. On my other PC it reads the DVD and goes into Installation menu.

Not to ask a stupid question, but is it possible my DVD does not read a DVD-R? I do not know what else to think. I have been trying to figure out how to download the 6 CD's, but it just seems like extra work and overkill.

I just don't understand what the heck is going on....are you saying that I should burn my DVD ISO as a CD ISO and run or boot of my CD ROM or DVD ROM?

d-1

go for the cds, they'll work in any pc no matter what

When I installed MKD 10.2 (LE), I burnt the iso to a DVD. Popped the DVD in, rebooted.. It would go to the first screen (press Return to install/update, press F1 for more options). But when I hit Return, it would hang ("trying to access cdrom (My device name)", or something like that). I tried everything. Played around in the BIOS. Pulled the drive out. Set it to master, to slave, tried both connects on the IDE cable.. Finally, it took off. I thought I had it whipped.. And was getting really sick of rebooting at this point. Well, I installed it, and just for fun popped the DVD back in (without changing anything) and sure as hell, it wouldn't run. I have NO idea why this thing can find the DVD drive when it first boots up, but can't find it afterwards..

But, moral of the story.. I just kept rebooting (yeah, great for the computer...) until it took off..

Yes it is a mystery to me too, DanTheMan. I can only guess that the boot sequence is on some sort of time delay looking to read the boot command off the DVD Rom drive, and for some reason it takes longer to read a DVD versus a CD, and by that point, it times out and boots from the Hard-drive thinking there is nothing in there to boot off from.

When I use my Mandrake 10.1 Community CD in my CD Rom Drive (off same machine I am having trouble with) it boots into the Mandrake Community installation CD Rom mode right away, but when I try and use the Mandriva DVD (on same PC) to boot off my DVD Rom drive, it times itself looking for a place to boot and about 4-5seconds later it boots from the hard-drive. I am not a PC expert by any stretch of the imagination, but it's the only thing I conclude or guess as to what is happening with my PC.

Now on the flip side, I take that exact same Mandriva DVD to my other Computer and it boots right away off the DVD Rom player and reads it. Both PC's are approximately the same age, but the one that boots and is able to read my Mandriva DVD, from the DVD Rom player, has the better/newer DVD Rom player/Burner.



So now I am (with tail between legs) downloading Mandriva in a CD format.

d-1

For those of you following my post, what I did was download Mandriva onto 6 CD's and ran from the PC that was giving me fits. For some reason my DVD could not read the DVD when my other PC could.

d-1

If anyone is still interested in a workaround, I had the same problem with an older machine. Take the boot.iso image from the install/images directory on the DVD. Burn it to a CD. Boot from the CD, and swap in the DVD when prompted for the install method. That's still slightly easier than multiple CDs.

Another workaround which worked for me was to create a floppy and boot from it. Consult INSTALL.txt for further reference:

* insert the CDROM, then open the icon "My Computer", right click on the CDROM drive
icon and select "Open"
* go into the "dosutils" directory and double-click on the "rawwritewin" icon
* insert a blank floppy in the floppy drive
* select "D:\images\cdrom.img" in the "Image File" field (assuming that your CDROM drive is
"D:", otherwise replace "D:" as needed)
* select "A:" in the "Floppy Drive" field then click on "Write".

To begin the installation:
* insert the CDROM in the drive, as well as the boot floppy, then
* restart the computer.