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]
