[Inx] iso>cd will not boot

jeff frcc at frontierbroadband.com
Sat Dec 26 07:02:10 PST 2009


Found problem, as usual operator error!!! Had boot disk in drive that
"yes" was not set to boot on startup- sorry for your time. But on to
trying your nice product!!!! Thanks for the help!!!!!!!!!!










On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:58 +1100, Andre Mangan wrote:
> Please reply to the list (reply to all).
> 
> It appears that you did not burn the iso but rather "copied" the iso
> file.  Easy to check - when you put the CD in, do the contents show
> "casper" and "isolinux"?  If they do not, you have merely copied the iso
> as an iso and will have to do it again.
> 
> md5sum check is described here:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
> 
> Andre
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 01:07 -0600, jeff wrote:
> > Bios is set up to boot from my cd and dvd, also am using dual boot with
> > windows running Ubuntu 9.10. When the disk is accessed during the boot
> > sequence there is no boot from the iso. image on disk, so i guess the
> > problem is somewhere between download and burn.  
> > Don't know how to use md5sum, did click it on your menu, which did open
> > a window but nothing happened except that it displaced some characters
> > and numbers. 
> > When booting, the sequence does sequence thru the drives to the boot
> > loader and offers the normal choice between linux and windows. I am a
> > novice but have been running linux for about a year and am able to use
> > the terminal. Matter of fact prefer the terminal. 
> > thanks again in advance. 
> > 
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> > On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 16:28 +1100, Andre Mangan wrote:
> > > Hello Jeff,
> > > 
> > > Brasero can be tricky but you should burn the inx.iso with "Burn an
> > > existing CD/DVD image to disc".
> > > 
> > > Check the integrity of your downloaded iso with md5sum before burning.
> > > 
> > > Check that your computer is set up with a "boot from CD" option.  You
> > > can adjust that in the BIOS under boot sequence.
> > > 
> > > That should assure success.
> > > 
> > > Andre
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