DVD not booting

[ixion]

Hi,

After succesfully creating an unattended installation CD which did everything I wanted it to do incl installing SATA drivers etc I then started adding more applications to be installed during the guirunonce phase...

My unattended CD is now to big to fit onto DVD, when I asked my burning software (used alcohol, cloneDVD and UltraISO) to burn it to DVD it didn't give me any errors.

My problem however is that after setting this DVD to boot it just hangs.. Gets to the stage where it says "Boot from ATAPI CD Rom..." etc and thats it, nothing, just sits there, doesn't start doing anything doesn't even scroll to the next line --- nada

I installed VM Ware and tried to boot the new virtual PC by setting the DVD drive as an ISO image of the problematic DVD and the virtual PC booted and installed windows fine

any ideas??

[totoymola]

Try using CDImage when creating your bootable disc.

http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/gettingstarted.htm

[CoffeeFiend]

Not all DVD drives support booting from DVDs

[ixion]

its a fiarly new drive - 12X DVD writer, do you think this may still be the case?

[ixion]

The drive was a NEC 2510A I think, I flashed the firmware and its working now. Boots from DVD and DVD+RW

[rdalling]

When I burn bootable DVD's i need to specify (for Nero)

enable expert mode

no boot emulation

Load Segment of sectors (hex) set to 0000

Number of load sectors set to 4

R