On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's broken, > it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not checking the > md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burned CDr also > contributes to the problem. It's also not clear to me if people > who experience this problem have tried booting CD1 from both > their CDrom and CD-RW drives. From the CD-RW would be the > preferred IMO, and from a CDr, not cd-rw media.
Well, I burned the CD on my Plextor PX-708a. I tried to boot CD1 from that same drive and it would not boot. CD2 does. I confirmed the md5 and the sums match reported values. The same Mandrake CD1 will boot from an older CD-ROM drive. My Plextor DVD Burner would probably not fall into the realm of cheap hardware. So, I don't think that this is totally md5 sum or improper burning related. I suspect that there is some minor anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or better CD devices but ignored by older ones. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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