Neither DSL or syslinux versions boot from CDForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Neither DSL or syslinux versions boot from CD started by: geercom Posted by geercom on April 28 2006,22:07
I created the DSL ISO 2.3 CD and I have a bootable CD RW. It went straight into Windows98se.I created the syslinux CD and same thing. It's an HP Pavilion XE736 with a Polaroid BurnMAX40 CD-R CD-RW. The option to boot from the CD is above the option to boot from the HDD in the BIOS setup. I don't have trouble with other CDs booting in that box. I used the recommended XP Burner Pro software. Suggestions? Posted by mikshaw on April 29 2006,01:19
What steps did you take to create the CD?
Posted by geercom on April 29 2006,13:07
In Windows Open up your CD burning application (if you don't have one, get the excellent freeware app CD Burner XP Pro) and install it. Another small freeware CD-burning program is BurnCDCC. [edit] With CD Burner XP Pro When you first run it, you will get a dialog box with 3 options. Choose the one that says "Create a new data CD or create a CD from an ISO image" or something like that. It should be the first option. Click the File menu, and select "Write Disk from ISO File...". In the window that is opened, click the "..." button and navigate to your ISO image. Set the write speed to 16x or less, to make sure it will boot on picky computers, and, if you don't plan on adding MyDSL extensions in a second burn session, finalize the disk. Start the burn, and in a few minutes, you should have your new DSL cd. Posted by mikshaw on April 29 2006,18:11
This looks like it might be providing conflicting information, since it seems to tie together "Create a new data CD" and "Create a CD from an ISO image" as being synonymous. They are not. If you choose "Create a new data CD" your cd will fail to boot properly. If you did burn as a disk image, then i don't know what to say...haven't heard of anyone being able to boot other cds but not boot a properly made DSL cd. Posted by geercom on April 29 2006,19:30
I think I know what happened. I believe there is a make bootable check box or something I missed. I better check the burner s/w notes/help and try again.Question: is this going to give me an easy, GUI type interface once I boot into it or what? D. Posted by mikshaw on April 29 2006,22:49
You should not use this "make bootable" option. That will create a new el torito boot sector, which will not work for DSL. The ISO already has its own boot sector, so you just need to burn it as a disk image instead of as a typical data CD and it will be bootable.
Posted by geercom on April 30 2006,00:17
Thanks so much, mikshaw. You provide very simple and friendly help!I made the image like you said and also followed instructions for getting it to see/use knoppix here: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies > (bottom of page) What I really want to do is make it a dual boot machine with Windows98se (latest MSFT it has enough resources to use) and DSM as Debian as hdd install so I can keep my settings in DSM permanently and upgrade to later versions of DSM etc. (Just give me the links to all the info I should need and I can probably take it from there) I will also need the best free e-mail, word processor that works with MS Word docs, apps that work with MSFT excel and ppt, and an image viewing and cropping app (Dillo is great and fast; I will keep that for now). (Again, just the links that should have the information to get me there step by step will be fine). If that's asking too much, just give me what you can and tell me which of what I've asked is available/possible. Thanks again, David |