Help With AROS

[HopperJF]

OK I've burned 2 CD's of AROS and it just won't boot. I've tried it on 3 different PC's.. they try to boot from the CD but it eventually just carries on with the boot sequence and starts to load from the HD. What am I doing wrong?

I have downloaded the ISO and put it onto a CD the mount-rainer way, I have even tried extracting the ISO and placing the files onto the CD manually. I've tried every way possible and it won't work on any of the 3 machines I tried it on. I don't think it is a hardware problem because Linux images load fine directly from CD...

[blobrana]

I have no idea,

but have you gone into the bios and changed the boot sequence

(press delete/(?) on boot; to : Cd-rom, C:, floppy)

[Holley]

ok, check the reply I've left in the News item

What CD Burning program are you using?

[Argo]

Did you get the GRUB screen?

[HopperJF]

I use the standard OSX method of burning CD's which is basically just literally putting the image file onto the CD and burning it. I can't see any problems with that because it is direct... I got no grub screen no nothing.

It says "searching for boot record.." waits a few seconds then just loads Windows 98 as normal?

The boot sequence is CD-ROM, Floppy then HD so that shouldn't be a problem.

[Karlos]

HopperJF wrote:
I use the standard OSX method of burning CD's which is basically just literally putting the image file onto the CD and burning it. I can't see any problems with that because it is direct... I got no grub screen no nothing.

It says "searching for boot record.." waits a few seconds then just loads Windows 98 as normal?

The boot sequence is CD-ROM, Floppy then HD so that shouldn't be a problem.

Is the CD itself readable under OSX?

[HopperJF]

Readable yes, exectutable.. obviously not.

Tomorrow I will put the ISO image onto the Windows box and try burning the image to CD using the NERO software. I will let you know how that goes..

[Trooper]

You have to select "Burn Image" or "Burn ISO" or something similar from the menu of your particular burning software. Not drag and drop the image or iso into the image creation window like you do with a data cd. The image you downloaded from AROS is a copy of an entire cd (boot sector an all). If you burn it as a file on the cd it will never ever boot.

Trooper

[Karlos]

@Trooper

Since the CD is itself readable under MacOSX I think we can assume he burned it correctly.

[Damion]

It will work fine with Nero, just unarchive first with WinRAR, then click on "Burn Image" in Nero and select the ISO.
 

[Holley]

It will be the boot sector that missing, I don't think Macs are aware of it, unless using a port of PC CD burning software.

Under NERO 5 go to the File menu (cancel the wizard etc) and just choose 'burn image' ;-)