VIA C3 - cant boot CD

[Derek Ragona]

Try booting another bootable CD.  It sounds like the CD you burned didn't 
burn properly.  You can find bootable images in other OS's at bootdisk.org 
or FreeDOS.org.

         -Derek


At 08:21 PM 8/31/2006, abc at ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote:
>i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded
>the 4.11 mini-iso image, and burned it to a CD-RW.
>
>CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (666.55-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
>after rebooting, the CD is found, and a boot
>attempt is made.  within 5 seconds, the kernel
>locks up after about 3 seconds of the
>kernel data+234238 text+23432 stuff and the
>/-\|/-\ twirling prompt, leaving a "/" as the
>first character on the next line.
>
>the ISO is the exact size it should be, and
>i could "gzip -t mfsroot.gz" in the /boot
>directory without error - so i guess it's
>a good image.  i am running 4.10 currently,
>and have no boot problems off the hard drive.
>
>any ideas as to what could cause this lock-up
>at boot time?  i thought the ISO's are made with
>the mkisofs --no-emul-boot, yet the CD is recognized
>as a 2.88 floppy, and boots 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader.
>i never booted off CD's before, and don't know
>what i should expect exactly.
>
>thanks.
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