[ale] OT: osol CD won't boot

[Jim Kinney]

Try reburning the CD and turn the burn speed down to the slowest setting.
The cd drive may be having issues reading the disk. I have seen this with
older drives no liking a CD burned at high speeds. The drive I burned in was
used to verify the disk checksum but the target drive was very unhappy. Ran
the burn speed to 2x and all went fine.

I seem to recall this a media problem and not really an old drive problem.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:

> Okay maybe way off topic, but I'm not sure what's happening and I
> haven't been able to get an answer at OpenSolaris.org. I have been
> playing around with opensolaris 200811 on virtualbox. the image file as
> well as a cd burned with the image will boot in a VM. The problem I have
> is that when I try to boot on the actual physical machine I get know
> where, just a GRUB> prompt. When I manually step through the process,
> I'll get Error 25: Disk read error. I have just tried it on another
> system and it'll boot fine. The HCL has mention of a MoBo similar to
> mine as working, what else could be interfering with it?
>
> TIA
> Scott
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