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re: Won't boot from Linux CD (98se system) Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 10:25 am Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |the boot sequence gets to |Searching for Boot Record from CDROM..and then it just hangs. |There's nothing wrong with the CD, because[...]on my other pc[...]it works perfectly | daveh {semantics}You don't boot FROM a disk, you boot TO a disk.{/semantics} If you are going to be messing with Linux, you need to find a good source of information/support for that. A Windows 98 forum hardly seems apt. In addition, learning how to use a search engine effectively would be a good skill to cultivate. The Usenet Archive q=ingroup:Linux+insubject:hangs (etc.) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Won't boot from Linux CD (98se system) Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 4:38 pm Posted by Jacob6601 (2174 messages posted) Perhaps your CD player does not like that brand of CD-R, or just that one CD. I would try burning another one, preferably with a different brand. You might also borrow a factory CD to boot from to test your hardware/BIOS. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Won't boot from Linux CD (98se system) Monday, June 11, 2007 at 1:46 pm Posted by Richard Harris (270 messages posted) If the CD reader on the 98 machine is old enough, it may not be able to handle a CD written by a modern high-speed writer. Or, the problem could be the CD media itself, with respect to the capabilities of the older reader (exact color vs laser color and so on). Or, the CD could have been written without closing it, or via packet writing (UDF, DLA, Direct-CD). The best guess is to try writing at a very slow speed, and maybe on different media. As a test, while running 98, can you read anything on the CD via Windows explorer? LINUX installation CDs are usually readable under windows. On Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 9:00 am, daveh wrote: >I am trying to set up a dual boot system on an old pc I've got with Windows 98se >installed, by installing the latest Ubuntu Linux 7.04 version alongside the 98se. >/> However, I'm having a problem whereby the pc won't boot from the CD. I've >got the boot sequence in BIOS set to Floppy, then CD, then Hard Disk, but when I >reboot the pc with the CD in the drive, the boot sequence gets to Searching >for Boot Record from floppy..Not Found Searching for Boot Record from CDROM.. >/> and then it just hangs. There's nothing wrong with the CD, because >when I try this on my other pc with XP installed, it works perfectly. Any >ideas? Cheers daveh [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Won't boot from Linux CD (98se system) Monday, June 11, 2007 at 2:34 pm Posted by daveh (127 messages posted) Thanks for the reply. I have solved the problem by burning the file to a cd whilst using the 98se machine at a much lower cd burning speed to the original cd which was burnt at a high speed on my XP machine Cheers daveh On Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 4:38 pm, Jacob6601 wrote: >Perhaps your CD player does not like that brand of CD-R, or just that one CD. I would >try burning another one, preferably with a different brand. >You might also borrow a factory CD to boot from to test your hardware/BIOS. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Won't boot from Linux CD (98se system) Monday, June 11, 2007 at 2:43 pm Posted by daveh (127 messages posted) Thanks for the reply. I have solved the problem by burning the file to a cd whilst using the 98se machine at a much lower cd burning speed to the original cd which was burnt at a high speed on my XP machine Cheers daveh On Monday, June 11, 2007 at 1:46 pm, Richard Harris wrote: >If the CD reader on the 98 machine is old enough, it may not be able to handle a >CD written by a modern high-speed writer. Or, the problem could be the CD media >itself, with respect to the capabilities of the older reader (exact color vs laser >color and so on). Or, the CD could have been written without closing it, or via >packet writing (UDF, DLA, Direct-CD). > >The best guess is to try writing at a very slow speed, and maybe on different media. > >As a test, while running 98, can you read anything on the CD via Windows explorer? > LINUX installation CDs are usually readable under windows. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum