All I did was to use wodim to burn the iso. When I got a usable dvd in the drive everything worked the first time. You may have run into a bunch of Chinese Specials in terms of DVD's, these look like they'll work but bomb out and turn into coasters.
On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Sexton wrote: > Hi, > > I think I am having bigger problems than just the release. > > I have a Lenovo idea pad u310 > Dual booting windows seven and vinux 3.2 which is based on ubuntu 11.04. > Both OS are amd64 and run alright. > > > Now I want to replace ubuntu with debian. > > I downloaded the first dvd of rc2 and in ubuntu have written the iso to usb > drive in several ways: > dd if=isofile of=/dev/sdc > dd if=isofile of=/dev/sdc bs=1M > cat isofile > /dev/sdc > cp isofile /dev/sdc > > All of these work fine and I can see all the contents of the dvd on the usb > drive under linux. > The USB does not boot or I assume it doesn't because there is no beep sound. > Note that beep works normally with the grub installed that is dual booting > windows and linux so I know beep works. > > In windows, I only see a folder named efi and in that folder boot and there > boot.efi. No other files are visible in windows on the usb drive. > > In linux I have used fdisk -l to check the partitions on the drive, it says > the drive has a gpt so I used gdisk, gdisk says the mbr is ok, but the gpt is > invalid, not sure if that means something. > > I have also tried the netinst iso file in similar way. > So, I guess it must be this drive or hardware I have... > > Any ideas? > David > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <[email protected]> Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
