On 6/19/06, Peter Reed <mrdeadworry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kam Leo wrote: > On 6/18/06, Peter Horst <phorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here. I had >> a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set. >> Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither >> computer would "see" the boot disk. Thought, "oh, well." Needed a new >> box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday. Burned fc-5 iso >> disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is >> present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any >> changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot >> from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery >> disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't >> figure out what I might be doing wrong. Can a disk checkout hash-wise >> and still be bad? What am I missing here? Could it be the windows >> software I am using to burn with? >> >> Any help greatly appreciated. >> >> Peter >> > > If you are using CD-RW media use 1X-4X rated media only. 4X-12X media > may work. 12X and higher speed RW media are not most likely not > compatible with older CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives. > > If using a DVD-ROM drive switch to DVD+R or the slow 1X-4X CD-RW > media. Also regardless of media type burn at a lower speed or half of > the maximum rated media speed. > I had this same problem with not being able to boot off the CD even though it was setup properly in the bios. It turned out that I was using CD-RW media instead of plain old CD-R media. Once I switched to the CD-R media everything was fine. Do not know why this would make a difference but for me it did. Good luck Peter
Read item 13 from Nashua Media, http://www.nashuamedia.com/faqcdrw.html, for the answer to your question.
