Newbee needs help

[crochunter]

i recently downloaded a product named "Ping v2.01.iso" and associated programs so that I could create bootable CD/DVD's for restoring PC's to a pre-determined point in time. Having followed all instructions I have encountered a problem when tring a restore. Booted from DVD and got the following message

Could not find kernel image : Kernel
boot:

Have checked the DVD and it contains the following
BOOT.CAT
HDA
HDA1.000
HDA1.001
HDA1.002
HDA1.003
HDA1.FIR
INITRD.GZ
ISOLINUX.BIN
ISOLINUX.CFG
KERNEL.TXT

Am I doing something wrong ? I.ve tested the image and that appears to be fine, Ive also re-created the bootable image several times, same problem encountered upon attempting restore

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, crochunter!

Check this HowTo article for making sure you properly burned the file to the disk:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ins...ll-cd-dvd.html

If the disk was burned correctly, let us know and we'll go from there.

[crochunter]

Thanks for quick response OZ.
can confirm image burned not copied. Nero-7 used.

Am recreating entire process from scratch and will use Nero-8 with all default settings except write speed as suggested. Forgot to mention before I'm using "mkisofs" with the following settings to create bootable disk as instructed with the accompanying documentation received

mkisofs -r -b ioslinux.bin -boot-info-table -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -o ../FileName.iso .

In my case "FileName" has been replaced with D610 (Dell NB)

Will post update later today to advise on current status

crochunter

[crochunter]

Oz

Problem appears to be resolved.
issues "kernel.txt" should have been "kernel" without extension & "isolinux.bin" needed to be created with a flat text editor and not copied & pasted.

thanks again for replying

crochunter