Re: CDs won't boot, give a failed crc, or don't give a menu

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

>On 12/2/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 12/2/05, David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net> wrote:
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>>>PS. I got debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso working -- I looked at the date
>>>(June) and it didn't make sense that it would have a crc problem. I
>>>burned another CD on my laptop, and this time it booted.
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>>>Using k3b with a Pioneer 104 produces CDs that don't boot, apparently
>>>consistently. Any ideas why?
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>>This is an interesting problem. Have you tried another burner?
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>Sorry for incomplete information. I meant an alternative disc-burning package.
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Hi Tshepang -- k3b per se doesn't seem to be the problem, as I
successfully used it with a different CD burner.
And using "cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdd -data some.iso" produces the
same problem.

Dave