Are you just looking for a way to check that the disc is 100% correct, or are you actually having problems booting off the burned disc? If it is the latter, you most likely burned it as track-at-once rather than disc-at-once. Which CD burning program are you using?
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:26:40 -0500, Steve Kleiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The machine boots just fine using a purchased Debian CD in the same drive. > The burned (and newer) CD "looks" the same using a windows machine, but I'd > like to dig a little deeper. I thought the resulting filesystem might not > start at the right sector, and some utilities might be available for use on > a Windows machine, such as the way FIPS will examine a hard drive. > . > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Godshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Steve Kleiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 PM > Subject: [debian] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD? > > > Actually, there's > > > > According to Steve Kleiser, > > > Greetings, > > > > > > What freeware utilities are available that could be used to check the > boot sector/MBR of a Debian boot CD using a Windows machine? > > > > This is probably the wrong place to ask about DOS/Windows > > utils, but you could do this: > > > > 1. get a lnx-bbc or knoppix or morphix or other > > run-linux-live-from-CD. knoppix and morphix at least are > > actually Debian. > > > > 2. boot in live run-from-cd environment ;-) Poke around > > with the usual Linux tools. > > > > There is a 1.44MB BIOS/DOS-format floppy image on the CD- there is not > > "boot sector" kind of thing on a CD outside of that. > > > > > After burning the CD the directory structure looks the way it should, > but I'd like to verify the correct location and content (maybe via a > checksum?) of the boot sector. Only Windows machines are presently available > to me. > > > > Perhaps the real problem is elsewhere. Is the target an old > > machine? Many of those can't read CD's written at higher > > speeds- try writing at 4X or less. Is the target machine's > > BIOS set to boot off CD? If not you won't get it to boot > > off any CD, Debian or not. > > > > -- Tony Godshall > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
