On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM, unni krishnan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Usual mistakes happens when creating a bootable CD are : > > 1. burning the ISO file as data file to cd. > > Are you sure that you burned the iso as disk image in your CD burner ? Yea, I burned it as a bootable medium. > > > 2. Not switching the boot medium. > > Make sure that you changed the boot medium to the CD drive in bios. The > modern mother boards support the F8 switching in which you can press the F8 > key to get the list of available boot media after the mother bard splash > screen while booting. Bios was set to first boot from CD if any is present. The problem might be with Nero, which I used to burn the image. So following the tip of harikrishnan, I used k3b and was successful in booting with that CD.
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