Quote Originally Posted by TyphoonMentat
... What probably happened was that HK tried to burn multisession on a disc which wasn't defined as a multisession disc to start with - causing corruption - or that something went wrong with his burn. ....
I don't think this was the case. I did burn it as a multi-session and left it open for additional sessiions. After booting DSL I was able to burn a second session (confirming that the cd had not been finalize as a single session disk and even bring the first session "forwad" so that I could see all of the DSL file in the new session. But the CD would not boot any longer. I even did this twice (once with a cdr, later with a cdrw), so I doubt that is was just "something" that went wrong with the burn.

Your report that you can do it with these other distros is interesting. I'll have to put duplicating this on my "to do list". I'll also try again with DSL, although to be honest I don't know exactly which version of DSL it was. I know there have been several minor releases of DSL since I did this. But if it still fails with the current DSL and does work with other distros that may point us in the right direction to understanding it.