[Quantian-general] Quantian 0.7.9.1 DVD ISO

[Jose Luis Gomez Dans]

Hi Dirk,
>On 30 January 2006 at 15:11, Christopher Heiny wrote:
>| On Monday 30 January 2006 14:41, Jose Luis Gomez Dans wrote:
>| > I downloaded the 2.4Gb ISO image with the latest Quantian. After 
>getting
>| > hold of it, I burnt it using k3b (DVD ISO). It was detected fine, and 
>so I
>| > went with it. The DVD burning process finished with no errors, and I 
>was
>| > left with my brand new Quantian DVD. However, the DVD does not boot in
>| > either the computer where it was burnt, or in other computer. The disk
>| > whizzes and the light in the drive flashes, but it does not boot up. It 
>is
>| > also impossible to read the contents of the DVD from either Windows or
>| > Linux.
>
>You may have burned a coaster. I have done so too with k3b. There is
>difference between creating a data dvd and a bootable one.

I just burned the ISO image using the "Burn ISO image". I even checked the 
MD5 hash using k3b, so the DVD has the system, and not just the ISO in it. 
Funnily enough, in the computers at work it  boots up (I get the blackboard 
penguin), and it starts booting up, but stops with a kernel panic sayint it 
cannot mount the root FS. Issuing the noapic blah blah options, it stops 
complaining about an unknown graphics card. So maybe the DVD was knackered, 
but a previous version I tried using (burned by a friend) was also unuseable 
in my home laptop (fairly new acer Aspire 1360) and on my home desktop 
computer (fairly old Duron system). Other systems that boot from a CD (not a 
DVD) work fine in either box. Could this be a DVD-related problem? Other 
DVDs (films and data) work fine, but this is the only booting DVD I have 
tried so far!

Many thanks!
Jose

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