Tried several times, three actually, downloading - verifying - burning, of 12.2 but to no avail. The DVD won’t boot.
Running an Acer Aspire 5733Z-4477 with standard Intel CPU/GPU.
My Ubuntu and CentOS live DVD’s boot just fine.
Does not seem to be a problem with the BIOS or the DVD-Super Multi DL drive.
The box switches 1st boot from CD to Hard Drive to memory stick and back fine. No problem there.
The ISO image burned into the DVD’s (yeah, burned two, two different times - one from the direct connect and one from a mirror here in the US) does not seem corrupt.
Did you verify the write process (‘Verify Written Data’ checkbox in k3b
or similar in other applications)? Also, did you burn at the slowest
speed possible since that sometimes seems to help with some CD/DVD drives?
If you have this working with other media you probably didn’t make this
mistake, but did you burn the CD/DVD using the ISO as a template, or did
you burn the ISO directly to the CD as just one file in a new
filesystem? The latter is, of course, wrong but it happens a lot.
Good luck.
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Thanks all for the good recommendations. It seems to be something else, as it loaded and installed on my emachines laptop. Since I have Red Hat, centOS, and Ubuntu running on my other machines, I’m going to close this and assume it was a HW error on the Acer. Thanks.
On 10/25/2012 02:26 PM, rudymogavero wrote:
> assume it was a HW error on the Acer.
could be…
we have seen here cases where a CD or DVD would boot on one machine and
not another…slight misalignment either on the burner or the reader or
both…sometimes you burn on one machine and it will boot that
machine, but none other…and, other times it will boot others buy not
the one that burned it…
oh, and sometimes all of those situations can be ‘fixed’ by changing the
brand (and price) of the blanks!
The best news, IMO, is that now you can trivially create a network
install source on your working box. Yast has an option to create one,
and you already have the media for it. Once you do so subsequent boots
can happen via PXE (oh yeah… setup a PXE server) and the install
should be even faster than using the CD/DVD just because of faster
pieces involved (no spinning optical disks). Plus, you can do all of
your other boxes at once and get rid of those other nasty distributions.
Good luck.
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