[K12OSN] The boot problem again

Eric Smith eric at bluecranecs.com
Thu Dec 2 20:43:19 UTC 2004


I'm not sure about Bjørn, but I know that I always set Nero to finalize
the discs, and Bjørn and I are still having the same issue. Head
scratching continues (I just burned and booted three new copies of Knoppix
yesterday in Windows, same procedure).

-j. eric smith

>>On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:13 +0100, Bjørn Roger Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> It is not just with Nero 6 it is possible to get a non bootable disc 1.
>>> I
>>> tried to burn CD 1 with the freeware program CDBurnerXP Pro 3 now and
>>> got
>>> the same problem there.
>>>
>>> I have tried to download the .ISO files many times both at home and
>>> here at
>>> work, both with Internet Explorer, Firefox web reader and FlashFXP FTP
>>> program. The downloaded files are ok, but I have the boot problem
>>> whatever
>>> I do... (Version 4.1.0 had no this problem at all!)
>>>
>>> But: When I cheat with boot.iso I get everything installed and
>>> everything
>>> works ok. So I can get around the problem, but it is irritating anyway!
>>>
>>> Bjorn Roger Rasmussen
>>
>
> Just a thought:  Did you finalize the CD after you burned it?  I've had
> trouble booting from certain CDs if they weren't finalized first.  Nero
> doesn't do that by default unless the data fills the capacity of the CD
> entirely.
>
> C-ya,
> Mark
> ____
> "Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty." --
> Mark Twain




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