Can't boot from Core 2 CD

[pete snider]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 10:15, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Tuesday, Aug 17th 2004 at 07:44 -0400, quoth pete snider:
> 
> =>On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 22:56, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> On Monday, Aug 16th 2004 at 17:44 -0400, quoth bscott at ntisys.com:
> =>> 
> =>> =>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 4:46pm, steveo at syslang.net wrote:
> =>> =>> Does anyone have any idea how I can debug this problem? I can boot from
> =>> =>> other CDs, but FC2 just stops dead.
> =>> =>
> =>> =>  It's unclear from your message how far it gets before it "stops dead".  
> =>> =>Does it display any messages at all?
> =>> 
> =>> Absolutely zip. The screen stops dead black as soon as I hit return.
> =>
> =>Have you check the md5sum of the CD to verify that it was written
> =>properly?
> =>
> =>-pete
>   
> The checksum of what I downloaded matches with what the checksum is
> supposed to be. But I'm suspicious of what actually got onto the cd.
>   
> The file i downloaded was FC2-i386-disc1.iso and then I sucked it back 
> out
> of the cd using
>   
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
>   
> 515 > l FC2-i386-disc1.iso FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
> -rw-r--r--    1 steveo   steveo   667529216 May 13 05:41 FC2-i386-disc1.iso
> -rw-r--r--    1 steveo   steveo   667559936 Aug 16 23:20 FC2-i386-disc1B.iso
> 516 >
> 
> So right off the bat, I suspect I might have a problem.
> 
> I used xcdroast to make the cds and now I'm not sure I trust them. What 
> commandline tool should I use to burn them correctly?

(sorry for the dup. I didn't cc the list)
It looks like the padding of tracks was enabled. make sure 'pad tracks'
is unchecked in the write parameters portion of the Create CD window.