On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Deven Phillips wrote:
> To anyone interested,
>
> I have recently discovered the answer to a problem I have seen on
> this list wuite a bit. People have been having problems with the Mandrake
> 7.0 ISO not booting properly, and through experimentation I have
> discovered a possible answer. I assembled a collection of various
> computers and tried to install from an ISO that a friend had downloaded
> and burned that didn't work for him. Consistently, the CR-ROM install
> failed during the reading of the CD-ROM boot image (i.e. after the splash
> screen, and the kernel demsg). I then took a CD that I had and
> installed. It consistently worked on all 7 machines. I looked for a common
> denominator, and I found that my friend had burned his ISO from a windows
> machine, and I had burned mine under Linux (cdrecord). I then realized
> that this may be the problem. I brought in a few more friends with varying
> hardware and OSs, and every CD burned from windows (no metter where the
> ISO was d/l'd from) froze at the same point, every linux burned CD worked
> without a hitch. Please verify and post any further information.
>
> Deven Phillips,
> Cytronix Computer Services, Inc.
sounds like somebunny forgot to use binary mode to transfer, the cdr i
burned with Easycd boots all the machines i have :/ I wouldn;t expect it
to even boot the logo much less load the kernel if it was transfered like
that
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