Cannot boot from Hoary CD

Peter Baumgartner linuz at bssmusic.de
Fri May 6 10:02:41 UTC 2005


Luke Venediger schrieb:

> Hey Peter,
>
> Sorry, I must've been unclear in the email. I did burn the image to 
> the CD, using Nero's Burn ISO option. This means that when I browse 
> the CD in Windows I can see the many files that make up the Ubuntu 
> installation CD.
>
> As it turns out the machine does not boot from CD at all. I've tried 
> Windows 2003, Peanut Linux, Warty and Hoary :(
>
Ah, I understand.
The CD is in the boot sequence of the BIOS?
Busmaster on?
CD is master or slave? (some BIOSes don´t like booting from slaves, of 
whatever reason - I had to put an IDE CDrom into my Server box on IDE0, 
because it didn´t like the SCSI Cdrom).

Maybe it will help ;-)

Peter




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