Usual mistakes happens when creating a bootable CD are : 1. burning the ISO file as data file to cd.
Are you sure that you burned the iso as disk image in your CD burner ? 2. Not switching the boot medium. Make sure that you changed the boot medium to the CD drive in bios. The modern mother boards support the F8 switching in which you can press the F8 key to get the list of available boot media after the mother bard splash screen while booting. Regards, Unni On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Sebin Jacob <sebinaja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I downloaded archlinux-2009.o2-ftp-x86_64.iso and created a bootable CD. > But when trying to boot from it, I am redirected to caldera DR-DOS prompt > and am standing at A:\> drive. > > I currently use a dual boot laptop with Windows XP-SP2 and Ubuntu 9.04. A > few days before, I had switched the ext3 partition to ext4 without formating > the system. > > Thinking this might be some problem with the change in filesystem, I tried > it with my home PC in which Windows XP SP2 and Linux Mint 7 Gloria are the > OS's. (Installed version was Mint 6 Felicia and I had upgraded the OS, a few > days before.) Here also, the CD boots into DR-DOS. > > I searched for a solution and didn't find any handy reference. May be, > something related to Grub may solve the problem. But still, I do not know > what to do. > > I request you to help me with this. > > regards, > Sebin > > -- > Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth > > _______________________________________________ > ILUG Cochin Mailing List > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/ > Mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net > >
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