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CD will boot in other systems, other CDs will boot

I'm trying to install ASL in an older IBM computer. I had originally thought that it would not boot from the CD-ROM drive so I downloaded Smart BootManager and put it on a floppy, as mentioned in other threads. Unfortunately, SBM did not find the CD-ROM drive.

In going through the system's BIOS, I found that it is indeed supposed to boot from the CD-ROM drive. So I tried another drive. Still no boot. I did find, however, that with the original drive the computer will boot the Mandrake Single Network Firewall CD and the Red Hat 7.3 installation CD. [:S]

I burnt the CD from a good ISO file with xcdroast on RHL9. The CD does boot in other computers. Should I burn another CD with the command line cdrecord command as mentioned in the CD burning notes, or would that be a waste of a CD? Any idea what the problem really is?

Craig

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0 dtalbot over 22 years ago

Older CD drives can sometimes be a bit funny about the the CDRs they will boot from. Probably worth burning another, make sure you use CDR rather than rewriteable, try a different brand of media and make sure you don't write the CD in multi session mode.
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david
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0 cwmccluskey over 22 years ago in reply to dtalbot

I burnt another, different brand CD with the command given in the burning instructions,

cdrecord dev=DEVICE fs=4096k -v -eject -pad -useinfo -dao -data Astaro_Security_Linux_ISO_IMAGE

Same results: no boot.

So I moved the disk to another syatem, transferred NICs and installed ASL V4 on the disk. I put the disk back on the original system after install and it booted just fine.

Craig
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0 RonB over 22 years ago

see this thread for a boot manager that helped me get my system up and running :
https://community.sophos.com/products/unified-threat-management/astaroorg/f/54/t/38305
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