Burning a CD

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Burning a CD
started by: rpmiller

Posted by rpmiller on Mar. 16 2005,23:50

I just got an Epia 5000 from the Mini-ITX store. They forgot the flash and OS, so I thought I'd try to do it myself with a USB stick. First I wanted to boot from CD, per instructions on this board. I've made several CDs and I always get the following message on boot:

ISOLINUX 2.04 (Debian, 2003-06-06) isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it...
isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F
isolinux:Disk error 01, AX=42FA, drive 9F

Boot Failed:...

The CD must be at least partially ok or I wouldn't see any Linux messages. I verified the MD5 of the .iso file. I used both NERO and MagicISO to burn the CDs - same results. Tried 2 different CDROMs too - same results.

Any ideas?

Ryan

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 17 2005,03:21

I don't own an Epia but I would try downloading and burning the dsl-1.0rc1-syslinux.iso image file instead of the regular download.

Maybe the syslinux version of DSL will work even though the isolinux version does not.

Posted by rpmiller on Mar. 17 2005,15:57

Thanks, I'll try that. Another question: If I do an MD5 check of the burned CD, I get a different answer from the .iso file MD5. Should this be the case?

Thanks,

Ryan

Posted by rpmiller on Mar. 17 2005,21:51

OK, the syslinux .iso is working. Thanks for the tip. Now I'm trying to get the USB to boot. I've set it up as desribed in the various notes, but I just get DISK BOOT FAILURE. I set the BIOS for USB-ZIP, which someone on here said would work with this board. Oh well, I'll keep plugging at it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Ryan

Posted by pet2001 on Mar. 24 2005,23:16

The error you are experiencing is due to a BIOS flaw, for more info see:

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