no boot record found when installing redhat

[owenbrown]

I am trying to wipe out windows and install redhat from a cd i made online, but I cant boot from my cd, it says no boot record found. how do i get a boot record? I tried this on a couple computers and got no boot record on both.

Here are the contents of my cd, am I missing something?
D:\>dir /p
Volume in drive D is 030520_0825
Volume Serial Number is A144-2790

Directory of D:
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 550 autorun
04/19/2002 11:54 AM 2,048 boot.cat
04/19/2002 11:49 AM 37 .disc1-i386
05/20/2003 06:08 AM <DIR> dosutils
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 5,289 EULA
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 18,385 GPL
05/20/2003 06:08 AM <DIR> images
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 15,143 RELEASE-NOTES-ja.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 15,243 RELEASE-NOTES-ko.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 16,193 RELEASE-NOTES-it.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 12,048 RELEASE-NOTES-zh_CN.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,508 README
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,805 README.de
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,954 README.es
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 5,168 README.fr
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,892 README.it
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,485 README.ja
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 4,422 README.ko
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 11,153 README-Accessibility
Press any key to continue . . .
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 3,330 README.zh_CN
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 3,662 README.zh_TW
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 12,771 RELEASE-NOTES-zh_TW.html
05/20/2003 06:09 AM <DIR> RedHat
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 12,432 RELEASE-NOTES
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 13,445 RELEASE-NOTES.de
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 13,234 RELEASE-NOTES.es
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 14,166 RELEASE-NOTES.fr
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 15,264 RELEASE-NOTES.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 13,467 RELEASE-NOTES.it
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 12,436 RELEASE-NOTES.ja
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 12,542 RELEASE-NOTES.ko
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 9,061 RELEASE-NOTES.zh_CN
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 17,284 RELEASE-NOTES-de.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 9,472 RELEASE-NOTES.zh_TW
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 15,567 RELEASE-NOTES-es.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 16,954 RELEASE-NOTES-fr.html
04/19/2002 10:55 AM 1,910 RPM-GPG-KEY
04/19/2002 11:54 AM 2,061 TRANS.TBL
35 File(s) 328,381 bytes
3 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

D:\>

 

[farley99]

It sounds like you didnt make your cd from the image (.iso) If you dont make it from the images it wont contain things such as the boot record.

You have to download the ISO and then with you cd creator look for something like Record CD from CD image.

Or if you have a friend with a working cd and you have two cd rom's just use a direct cd copy.

Hope this helps!

 

[sleipnir214]

If you want to download the ISO files and burn them, point your browser to

http://www.linuxiso.org

or

http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[flugh]

I have an old laptop that will only boot from CD-R media (_not_ CD-RW) using the 'disc-at-once' option (found in the few CD burning programs I've used, both Windows and Linux). I don't know the technical details, but it worked for me.

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JR