Iso image will not boot

bruce205 · 08-11-2003, 05:46 PM

Hi folks
I have a PC 1.7ghz 512 ram running Win Xp on one hdd and Red Hat 9 on 2nd hdd. I am using Grub as bootloader.
Everything running fine
I downloaded Slack 9 iso image from the internet onto my Apple Imac and burned image to CD-RW using Toast Titanium using ISO9660
My windows and Linux systems recognize cd but will not boot from it into slack. It will bring up pc into grub and show just windows and redhat.
Please help? I can find no help in online docs with my specific problem.
Thanks very much

Titus28 · 08-11-2003, 06:01 PM

Well, did you actually burn the image to the disc or did you only copy over the ISO? The latter scenario results in a disc that can't be used to boot or install.

bruce205 · 08-11-2003, 07:09 PM

I wrote a session onto cd and it was verified by Toast. I burned another ISO and it still will not boot.
I have downloaded ISO Slack file still and am dragging it into Toast which copys it then writing session. Am still stumped
??

carboncopy · 08-11-2003, 10:01 PM

check the md5sum of the disk!

carboncopy · 08-11-2003, 10:01 PM

Sorry, I mean the ISO image file

Waldi · 08-12-2003, 03:00 AM

I had the same problem with booting from installation CD. I read somewhere, that it is a bug in 9.0 which prevents install CD from booting on some machines. It was advised to use 8.1 components to burn bootable CD. But the easiest way is to prepare and use boot floppy and start installation from there. It is described well in Slack installation instruction.

Cerbere · 08-12-2003, 03:36 AM

I just posted a suggestion in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=81162

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere