Ubuntu

CD won't boot

Asked by mavsman4457

When I go to boot up in Linux it just hangs on a screen with a blinking underscore. It does not get into the installation at all so I think I burned the disc wrong. I burned the CD using Roxio Creator Classic on a CD-R. It said something about floppy emulation or no emulation when I burned it so I just left that alone (as default it was set to floppy disc emulation). I have burned two seperate discs, with the same content on each, so it is not the simple problem of a faulty disc. When I go to disc contents it has a BIN file and the Ubuntu.iso file. I have tried booting on a Dell Dimension 3000 and a Dell Dimension XPS T700r.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#1

When burning your ISO image, you can't simply drag 'n' drop it in your CD burner. You should follow a procedure named "burn ISO image" or similar. When it is burned correctly, you should be able to see several files and folder in your CD.

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mavsman4457 (bdsport445) said : 		#2

Thank you. This worked out perfectly. I went to http://www.govideo.com/index.Asp?GV=CDWriteHelp for instructions on how to burn the cd.