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Can't boot from CD

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 06:23.

I've burned two disks from the 8.10 iso (http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/) using Sonic. I've tried booting both CDs on two different computers. In both cases the computer failed to boot from the CD and booted into XP. The BIOS on both computers is set to boot from CD first.

I have a XP installation disk which I have no problem booting from, so the computer/BIOS/drive are not the problem here. Is there some other non-obvious thing I need to do to be able to boot from the Rescue Remix?

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Problem solved. I tried two

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 08:05.

Problem solved.

I tried two versions of bundled (crippled) Sonic Record Now which cannot create a boot disk from an iso image (you end up with the iso file burned onto the cd).

If anyone comes across this thread and is having trouble creating a boot disk from the iso I highly recommend the free version of Deep Burner (www.deepburner.com). It's easy, free and it got the job done for me!

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I will make the link to this

Submitted by andrew on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 09:42.

I will make the link to this page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
more visible.

Infrarecorder (http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/) is free/libre software that can reliably burn an so image and is what I recommend to Windows users to use.

I find that free versions of proprietary software often presents problems as you describe, if they are simply not flat out spyware/malware.

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I've used UltraISO (from EZB

Submitted by Alan (not verified) on Wed, 12/03/2008 - 19:18.

I've used UltraISO (from EZB systems) with good success.

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all i got was a command

Submitted by elektros75 on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 17:10.

all i got was a command prompt after various error messages from the 9.10 version, downloading 9.04 now

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Acer Extensa 4420 Dual Boot
- Windows 7 Ultimate | Ubuntu 9.10
AMD Athlon x2 @ 1.9GHz, 2 Gb or DDR2 400 memory,
ATI Radeon x1250 integrated video, 160 GB HDD
Custom Built Game Rig Dual Boo

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Is the command line you are

Submitted by andrew on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 21:45.

Is the command line you are prompted functional? What error messages do you get?

Ubuntu-rescue-remix is a set of command-line tools. There is no GUI on the live cd.

You can install the rescue-remix tool on any ubuntu system such as the desktop version.

All you need to do is add the repository to your lists and install the ubuntu-rescue-remix-tools package.

See the release announcement for details:
http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/node/195

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