Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
Are you just looking for a way to check that the disc is 100% correct,
or are you actually having problems booting off the burned disc? If it
is the latter, you most likely burned it as track-at-once rather than
disc-at-once. Which CD burning program are you using?
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:26:40 -0500, Steve Kleiser
<skleiser@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The machine boots just fine using a purchased Debian CD in the same drive.
> The burned (and newer) CD "looks" the same using a windows machine, but I'd
> like to dig a little deeper. I thought the resulting filesystem might not
> start at the right sector, and some utilities might be available for use on
> a Windows machine, such as the way FIPS will examine a hard drive.
> .
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Godshall" <togo@of.net>
> To: "Steve Kleiser" <skleiser@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 PM
> Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?
>
> > Actually, there's
> >
> > According to Steve Kleiser,
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the
> boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine?
> >
> > This is probably the wrong place to ask about DOS/Windows
> > utils, but you could do this:
> >
> > 1. get a lnx-bbc or knoppix or morphix or other
> > run-linux-live-from-CD. knoppix and morphix at least are
> > actually Debian.
> >
> > 2. boot in live run-from-cd environment ;-) Poke around
> > with the usual Linux tools.
> >
> > There is a 1.44MB BIOS/DOS-format floppy image on the CD- there is not
> > "boot sector" kind of thing on a CD outside of that.
> >
> > > After burning the CD the directory structure looks the way it should,
> but I'd like to verify the correct location and content (maybe via a
> checksum?) of the boot sector. Only Windows machines are presently available
> to me.
> >
> > Perhaps the real problem is elsewhere. Is the target an old
> > machine? Many of those can't read CD's written at higher
> > speeds- try writing at 4X or less. Is the target machine's
> > BIOS set to boot off CD? If not you won't get it to boot
> > off any CD, Debian or not.
> >
> > -- Tony Godshall
> >
>
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