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I burned a Puppy CD but it won't boot
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Merkant

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PostPosted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 14:13    Post subject:  I burned a Puppy CD but it won't boot  
Hello,
I loaded down pup-431.iso and burned it to a CD. It was done in my Packard Bell Easy Note TJ65; Windows 7 Home Premium. I have tried to boot the CD in two different desk tops with Windows XP Professional: one healthy one, which deliver then message "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter";
the other one with a faulty Windows which keeps trying to boot windows from the hard disk over and over again, although that option is disabled. The file was said to be the latest version. When looking at the file´s properties, the type is said to be a mirror.

I would be greatful for some tips if somebody have.
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PostPosted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 14:27    Post subject:  
How did you burn the CD? If you open the CD in Windows, what are the contents of the CD?
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PostPosted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 15:26    Post subject: Re: Boot problems  
Merkant wrote:
Hello,
I loaded down pup-431.iso and burned it to a CD. It was done in my Packard Bell Easy Note TJ65; Windows 7 Home Premium. I have tried to boot the CD in two different desk tops with Windows XP Professional: one healthy one, which deliver then message "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter";
the other one with a faulty Windows which keeps trying to boot windows from the hard disk over and over again, although that option is disabled. The file was said to be the latest version. When looking at the file´s properties, the type is said to be a mirror.

I would be greatful for some tips if somebody have.


Did you verify the md5 of the downloaded file? I like md5deep for my checksums:

http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/#download

Did you verify the final burned disk again the iso image?

If you burn CDs under Windows, I like "imgburn", which burns the iso and verifies the burn (you can also perform a "verify" on the burned image, which would be good in this case, as you would know positively that it was good or bad)..

http://www.imgburn.com/

Check these, and let us know.

The fact that 2 different machines seem to report the same problem points to a bad CD, or bad starting image.
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Béèm


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PostPosted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 15:29    Post subject:  
Good choice imgburn. Never had a problem with it.
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PostPosted: Wed 17 Mar 2010, 15:33    Post subject:  
Béèm wrote:
Good choice imgburn. Never had a problem with it.


Me too -- or at least when it does have a problem, bad disk say, it tells you before it completes (I have a TV-DVD recorder, in which I use rewritables -- and from those I burn
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Merkant

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PostPosted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:34    Post subject: Boot problems  
Hello,
Now I have burned a new CD using imgburn as you told me, and now I can boot. I thank you very much for helping me.
Best regards
Håkan Österlund
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PostPosted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:46    Post subject: Re: Boot problems  
Merkant wrote:
Hello,
Now I have burned a new CD using imgburn as you told me, and now I can boot. I thank you very much for helping me.
Best regards
Håkan Österlund


Excellent! Have fun with that new Puppy!... Smile
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Béèm


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PostPosted: Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:02    Post subject:  
Merkant, for the sake of fellow posters, can you edit the subject of the initial post and add [SOLVED] to it.
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Merkant

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PostPosted: Fri 26 Mar 2010, 07:45    Post subject:  
Problem is solved by burning by "imgburn". Thank you all very much for your help. Have a good day.

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