CD Boot troubles

ReTRiBuNe · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Australia

I seem to have a bit of trouble booting from the Gentoo CD I made. I ran an md5sum on the iso and the md5sum's were the same. And yes, I have changed the boot sequence in BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM. Is there a way I can manually boot the CD from DOS? BTW I'm currently running win2k. Any help at all will be much appreciated. Thank you

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dol-sen · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 1:33 am Post subject:

Mostly some older equipment does not always work to boot the live-cd. There are several options if your equipment does not like the gentoo live-cd.

Try the knoppix live-cd, sometimes it works when the gentoo one does not.

Use an Alternate install method:
-- tomsrtboot to copy the livecd kernel & initrd to the hd then boot with a grub floppy (worked good for me)
-- try devjonfo's bootdisk
-- try another distro's install bootdisk or live-cd
-- put the hard drive in another computer and install to it there for the destination computer.
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Diezel · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 2:20 am Post subject:

Did you burn the CD properly? Sorry for asking but the first time I burned a .iso (3 years ago) I just draged and dropped the iso to the CD and needless to say it wont work. So if your using for example nero make sure you choose
File-->Burn Image.
When done check the CD in Windows, just put it in and check that there are files on it.
BTW, did Win2k boot from CD? If it did Gentoo should also. In that case you have some settings wrong. Try to check theese and post more if it still doesn't solve your problem.
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ReTRiBuNe · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Australia

Thank you both for your advice. I will try using the bootdisk method first. I have made sure that the ISO is not corrupt as I mentioned I md5sum'ed it. I also have a version from a distro so it should just be my old equipment. Thanx for all your help

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ReTRiBuNe · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Australia

BTW No win2k did not boot from disk, I had to locate a bootdisk that would load the CD. No matter how many times i changed the Boot Sequence I was still not able to boot from CD-ROM. But hey thanx, you've both been great

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