[ale] SuSE installer boot problem

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Mon Jun 7 10:28:44 EDT 2004


It is possible with Toast that you need to select "bootable" before making the 
burn.  I've had that problem with X-CDRoast that came with RH9 even though I 
was burning an image.
Dow


Ryan Williams wrote:
> I am trying to install SuSE 9.1 on a PC I just built. I'm wanting to set 
> this up as a dual-boot system, and already have XP installed and 
> running. I have my bios set up to attempt to boot from the DVD burner 
> drive first, yet I can not get the first suSE disc to boot on restart. I 
> downloaded these images from Jonathan's site a few weeks back. They were 
> downloaded to one of my OSX systems, mounted and burned with Toast using 
> the copy feature. Generally, this makes a perfect copy of the disc or 
> image, so I'm not sure why the PC won't boot from the CD. Perhaps the 
> disc is in the wrong format coming from OSX? Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ryan
> 
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