I'm having trouble booting from the CD

lcb bruzer at austin.rr.com
Thu Feb 23 21:41:54 UTC 2006


Fritz Whittington <f.whittington <at> att.net> writes:

> 
> On or about 2003-12-31 19:05, Tyler whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and 
> scribbled:
> 
> > Hello everyone.  I have a problem I was hoping someone could help me 
> > with.  When I try to boot my Fedora CD I get this message
> >
> >  
> >
> > ISOLINUX 2.06  2003-08-22   isolinux:  disk error 01, AX = 4293, 9F
> >
> >  
> >
> > I have no idea what it means or what to do.  Any help that someone 
> > could give me would be appreciated.
> >
> Did you burn the CD yourself? Can you look at it on your Windows system 
> and see if it has just one big file on it named xxxxx.iso?  If so, then 
> that's why it won't boot.  You need to tell your CD burner to "Make a CD 
> from an ISO image" not just copy the .iso file to the CD.
> 


I get the same thing with a FC5 Test3 DVD which passed mediacheck on a different
machine. Booting with the installed FC3 hard disk and the DVD is readable; all
looks well.
Also tried the ide=nodma option to no avail.
Have you had any success yet?





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