Andy Ruhl wrote:

>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:03:04 +0100, Colin Raven <duiker@haggis.nl> wrote:
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>>Andy Ruhl wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:53:20 +0100, Colin Raven <duiker@haggis.nl> wrote:
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>>>>boot device <unknown>
>>>>root on cd0 dumps on cd0b
>>>>cd0 no disc label
>>>>warning no /dev/console
>>>>cd0 (pciide1:1:1: medium error, data=00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00)
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>>>Whether the CD was burned properly or not, you got an error reading
>>>it. Did you try a different machine?
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>>Thanks for the response Andy. The answer is no I didn't, and that's only because I don't have another machine to try it on. (-:
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>>I could try re-burning the CD I guess.  Looking at the error messages,
>>should I have labeled the CD in some pre-understood manner perhaps?
>>What is the '02' output in the middle of the data error? (or is that
>>just not important at this point?)
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>Don't know, I'm sure there's some reference for what that means on an
>ide cdrom somewhere... I don't know where it is though.
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>If the CD is correct, then it may be that your drive doesn't like this
>CD. Maybe try a different type of blank, or just try to boot it on
>someone else's machine to see if it works. I think it just has some
>text about what it wants to do. It's been a while since I've done
>that.
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OK, I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Thanks very much for the 
suggestions and feedback, much appreciated.
Regards,
-Colin