Serious GRUB booting problem after install Ubuntu 9.10beta for testing it.

[Joseph Cooper]

I have burned a Mint 7 XFCE ISO I had on my hard drive while booting Karmic
beta from a flash drive, but the CD will not boot either, it gets to
"loading" on a black screen and then eventually goes silent. Worryingly I
downloaded the Mint 7 ISO, checked that the MD5 was correct and then burned
it, but ran into the exact same problem. I get the same problem if I used
compatibility mode, or I if try to use the "verify the CD's integrity"
option. Is it possible that something has gone wrong that now means I can't
even boot lives CDs based on Grub Legacy? Does burning ISOs when booting
live from a flash drive made using USB-Creator not work? Or is it just these
cheap CDRs I've got, or a problem with Brasero on the Karmic beta?

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm going to try burning the ISO (which I know
is OK as I checked the MD5) on a public (Windows) computer onto a better
quality CD. I've also requested that my original Live CD, the one I
originally used to install the Mint 7 system which is now broken, is sent
up; if that will no longer boot I think I'm definitely in trouble...

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:

>
>
> Joe, if you don't have live cd handy, just google and download
> grub-legacy iso , (make sure it is not grub2; just a few MB) and boot.
> Then do the ">grub" things.
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