[ale] SuSE installer boot problem

[Geoffrey]

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?

I don't know why it won't boot from the disc, but I can offer a couple 
of work-arounds.

1. reburn the boot disc
2. try booting form disc 2, it is usually bootable as well, it will then 
prompt for disc 1.
3. there is a procedure to boot from floppies documented on the first disc.


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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