[ale] burning' to burn > weird Gentoo install problem

Calvin Harrigan charrig at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 2 04:17:12 EST 2003


Are you sure the CD image you've burned is bootable?  Are there any
error messages before the machine reboots?

Calvin...


On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 04:11, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> Somehow, I got the CDROM to burn. I am not sure what exactly made it work.
> I added something to the make menuconfig as an experiment, and then did a 
> "make dep" and specified an append in the grub.conf (as if it was a 
> lilo.conf) and rebooted the computer.
> 
> Anyway, I burned a CD of Gentoo.
> I excitedly put the CD into my computer with a blank hard drive.
> The machine keeps rebooting over and over.
> Next, I put it in another machine. Same thing.
> Ironically, I mount the CD and can read it fine.
> 
> Should I burn another CD when I can read the one I have?
> Anyone else have a similar problem?
> 
> -- 
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy, and Laughter,
> Drew Brown
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
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