[sclug] Trouble booting from DVDs - update

[Neil Haughton]

I left some information out of my first post - here is the updated version

I have a Debian Squeeze machine. I want to upgrade it to Wheezy, so I tried
> booting from the latest Linux User 'Live DVD' - no joy.
>
> I have had some trouble with my coaster devices so I ditched both of them
> and bought a new Samsung DVD Writer (mid-price, about ?25), plugged it into
> the end of the cable attached to IDE1 channel. I left the master/slave/CS
> jumper at the position supplied (I guess master or CS - the device does not
> state what each position is).
>
> My machine sees it as /dev/sr0, which I would expect, with a symlink to it
> as /dev/cdrom.
>
> I read a couple of DVDs with the new drive, no problem, and burned a
> couple of CD-Rs, no problem. So then I tried to reboot from the Linux User
> DVD. This is what I got:
>
> Boot from ATAPI CDROM
> No Emulation
>
> ISOLINUX 4.01 blah blah....: Disk Error 80, AX=4293
>
> Oh dear. Suspecting a faulty DVD I rebooted to my normal system and
> downloaded the netinstall CD image from the Debian mirrors, and using
> Brasero burned that to a DVD-R disk. Then I tried booting from that:
>
> Boot from ATAPI CDROM
> No Emulation
>
>    EDD error 8000 reading sector 34940 drive 9F

> VesaMenu.C32: Not a COM32R image
>
> This sounds like a hardware problem, but I am not a hardware engineer so I
> do not know what to do about it. Do I have a dodgy new DVD writer, a cable
> problem, or is Brasero mucking up the creation of a new DVD?
>
> TIA
>
> Frustrated Neil.
>
>