k3b howto make booteable cdrom???

Schmurff · 03-15-2004, 06:57 AM

Hi Folks,

I have mandrake 9.2. With it I installed K3b, a cd-burning program.
All day I have desperately tried to let it burn a bootable cdrom.
I spent 3 cdroms and none of them appears to be bootable.
Also very nice is the lack of documentation, the handbook-option under the help-button is greyed-out. On the internet there is lots of k3b, but nothing answers my question.
Anybody who has some experience with this program please reply to my question!

Thanks in advance

Schmurff

doralsoral · 03-15-2004, 08:13 AM

if im not mistaken you need a oot image to point it to when you butrn the cd to make i bootable. i could be wrong though, just out of curiosity why are you trying to make a bootable cd?

clarks · 03-15-2004, 09:09 AM

Try opening K3b, click on tools, then CD, and Burn image (maybe iso). You will then be able to browse to your image file and select it to burn. I have found this to be the best way to burn iso images in K3b.

Schmurff · 03-15-2004, 09:18 AM

Then there must be a bug in k3b.
As I mentioned in my question, I have tried every setting without the wanted result: a bootable cdrom. But I only produce frisbees!
That's what it is all about...

clarks · 03-15-2004, 09:27 AM

Did you md5sum the images? Try doing this first to make sure they are not corrupted files. Also, try burning at a lower speed (4x) which will help the integrity of the file transfer.