Hi Michael,
I know this post was from some time ago, but I had the same problem and was able to find a solution. I found when burning ISO images w/CDBurnerXP Pro 3 you must click the buffer underrun protection off or it will not make the disk bootable. Probably too little too late, but I thought I would share this w/you. Of course, I spent many, many hours on this before I figured it out.
Regards,
Kevin Harris
--On December 1, 2005 10:49:01 PM -0800 David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net> wrote:
Greetings --
I've just spent a traumatic three hours trying to install Debian on a
plain 686. I've installed Debian on a dozen machines before, including
this one (it's a reinstall after a possible hacker attack).
1. First attempt: etch beta 1 daily build netinstall
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso
-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Machine boots from CD, I press return to boot (and try expert), but it
gives an immediate crc error and freezes
2. Second attempt: etch beta 1 netinstall
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/i386/iso-cd
/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Machine boots from CD, I press return and it loads modules -- but
produces an endless flow of debconf messages instead of making an
installation menu
Well not sure, but it's probably broken, use sarge.
3. Third attempt: debian-testing-i386-binary-11.iso
Burn the CD, mount it and check contents, looks fine -- but two of my
machines agree it's not a boot CD
4. Fourth attempt: debian-31r0a-i386-binary-12.iso
These aren't bootable. You want the netinst for 31r0a *or* the -1 disc I believe has the boot/installer.
Burn the CD with k3b, mount it and check contents, looks fine -- but two
of my machines agree it's not a boot CD.
I even tried burning it again, using
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdd -data
debian-testing-i386-binary-11.iso
-- checks out fine, but isn't bootable.
I noticed these have autorun.bat and .inf files in the root directory,
and the LordSutch doesn't, but find it had to believe this is the
problem. I can mount the iso image using
mount -o loop -t iso9660 debian-testing-i386-binary-11.iso loop
No errors, looks like a valid iso. I have an old potato install CD from
LordSutch that works fine on both tested machines -- and of course the
first two images I burned booted.
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Please tell me what's going on. Have I really downloaded four broken
iso images in a row? Since I even tried a stable image, I really don't
know where to turn.
This reminds me of the very first time I tried to install Debian, on
floppies, and I knew nothing about it; I stayed up all night and got
nowhere. I really want Debian and not Ubuntu, I'd like a recent version
at the base, and I need a driver for sk98lin or equivalent. But I
simply cannot afford to spend this much time getting a workable CD. One
of my burners -- a Pioneer DVR-104 -- doesn't recognize my rewritable
media, and the other, on a laptop, won't erase them, so I end up
producing lots of coasters.
Dave
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