[ale] Making a bootable CD

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Nov 30 13:33:07 EST 2005


Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> I *must* be missing something...
> downloaded several bootable .iso's and burned them over to CD's.
> The CD's won't boot. (Yes, the CD drive is the first listed in the BIOS 
> setup, and, in fact,
> with the hard drive removed the boot loader tells me that the loaded
> CD "doesn't contain a bootable image".)
> 
> I've tried downloads of Ubuntu 5-10's .iso, LFS-LiveCD's .iso
> and I'm getting nowhere. Is there some sort of a bootable flag?
> What am I missing?

What tool are you burning them with?  Some do have a toggle to turn on 
bootable.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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