[CentOS] CentOS 6 x86_64 DVD doesn't boot

Thu Jul 14 14:53:07 UTC 2011
Trey Dockendorf <treydock at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <
m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I downloaded the CentOS 6 x86_64 DVD ISOs and burned the first image to
> a rewritable DVD.  When I tried to boot my new home server off it, it
> didn't, and then this was printed to the screen:
>
> ETCDisolinux: Found something at drive = EF
> No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
> boot:
>
> The same disc works fine in my 4 year old HP laptop, and when installing
> CentOS 6 as a KVM.
>
> I've found one post from a Fedora 14 user that was having the exact same
> problem, but no one replied to him.  Other articles, posts etc. around
> the net reference something different for the "EF" part.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on? I've never seen this problem before.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ranbir
>
> --
> Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
> Linux 2.6.32.26-175.fc12.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 09:21:53 up 10:20, 2 users, load average: 1.20, 1.47, 1.34
>
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I had an smililar issue using the CentOS 6 DVD with a DVD-RW.  The same
install disk worked perfectly on another system.  I ended up having to use
the Netinstall CD to do the install.
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