Re: Booting to floppy first?

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Rusty Ambrose wrote:

> for additional help, this is what I get on two compaq
> systems (much more scrolled off the screen, this is
> all I could write down)-
>
> ___________________________________________________
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x30
> ATAPI device hdd:
>  Error: Medium error -- (sense key=0x03)
>  (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
>  The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
>  "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
> cdrom: open failed.

These would seem to indicate either a corrupt image (do an md5sum on the
iso file) or a bad burn (redo the CD).

If you can't do an md5sum on the file (I don't know how to do this in
Windows), at least check to make sure the size is consistent.

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