CD fails to boot

[robbyappleton]

I could be totally missing something obvious, but I've burned two cd's, and I can't get a computer to boot from either of them. I've changed the BIOS settings on each computer to boot from CD first, before floppy and HD. When I put a disk in the computer, I don't get Windows OR Knoppix, I just get a black screen with a white line in the top left corner (like a DOS command prompt, but just that one little underscore).
Anyway, if anyone could help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

[windos_no_thanks]

If you boot windows from the HD like before and then load the CD and look at it's contents what do you see ?

[millennia]

I get the boot where when it tells me

"boot failed insert system disk"

or something to that effect.....
Please help

[windos_no_thanks]

I get the boot where when it tells me

"boot failed insert system disk"

or something to that effect.....
Please help

Are you trying to boot from the CD ? Did you burn it yourself ? If so just do what I suggested in my previous post so we can find out if it has been burned the right way.

[robbyappleton]

I get two BIN files, one is BOOTCAT, the other is BOOTIMG.

[windos_no_thanks]

I get two BIN files, one is BOOTCAT, the other is BOOTIMG.

Huh ?
At least you don't have a CD with just one big *.iso file which seems to be a common mistake.
What you should see is:

• Demos KNOPPIX Talks autorun.bat autorun.inf cdrom.ico index.html

Of those Demos, KNOPPIX and Talks are directories (folders).
The KNOPPIX directory should contain this:

• KNOPPIX KNOPPIX-FAQ.txt images index_it.html knoppix-header.gif web-background.gif
  KNOPPIX-FAQ-EN.txt LICENSE.txt index.html index_jp.html links.html
  KNOPPIX-FAQ-ES.txt README_Security.txt index_dk.html index_nl.html md5sums
  KNOPPIX-FAQ-FR.txt background.jpg index_en.html index_ru.html mkfloppy.bat
  KNOPPIX-FAQ-IT.txt boot.cat index_es.html knoblind.bat rawrite2-readme.txt
  KNOPPIX-FAQ-NL.txt boot.img index_fr.html knoppix-cheatcodes.txt rawrite2.exe

Have you checked the md5sum of the *.iso file before burning it ?

[Markus]

A .bin file is just another image file like .iso
I thought Knoppix comes as isos, but try burning the image to a cd and see what happens.
If you're using Nero close the wizards and choose File -> Burn Image
Then select the 700 Mb .bin file and burn it.

[windos_no_thanks]

A .bin file is just another image file like .iso
I thought Knoppix comes as isos, but try burning the image to a cd and see what happens.

Umm, I think in this case those refer to the boot.cat and boot.img files in the KNOPPIX directory..

[Markus]

And some more sloppy reading by me

[millennia]

windos_no_thanks wrote
Are you trying to boot from the CD ? Did you burn it yourself ? If so just do what I suggested in my previous post so we can find out if it has been burned the right way.

Yes I'm trying to boot fro the CD. I did burn it myself . Yes it has all the files in it. When I boot it will boot me up, give me the knoppix logo and ask for which boot options. (It gives me the command prompt boot
I tryied alot of differnt options but none seem to work.
I have downloaded PHLAK and I use fbdev module on that,
but on Knoppix it doesnt work.