Live CD won't boot

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 21:54:06 UTC 2007


On 6/2/07, jack wallen <jlwallen at monkeypantz.net> wrote:
> so far i've found myself burning coasters just like another user. i burn
> the CDs with K3B, the checksums turn out fine, but when i try to boot
> the disk it stalls for a while and just says "boot failure...press any
> key to reboot" and that's it. no errors, no warnings, no nothing.
>
> has anyone else experienced this problem? this machine has had various
> versions of Fedora Core without any problem.
>
> so far Fedora 7 is turning out to be a total bust for me.
> --
> jack wallen, jr. www.monkeypantz.net
> It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire

Is the burner drive also the boot device? If not, your problem may be
that the other CD/DVD drive is not able to read the media. Use CD-R,
burn at a low speed, and avoid CD-RW for situation like this.




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