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Topic: Live CD fails on bootup

I am using GParted Live v.0.4.5-2.  When attempt to boot to the CD is just gives a title page in dos char that say's GParted with versioning info and just sits there.  When I use my version 3 cd it gets stuck in a loop giving the following errors.

sd 2:0:1:3: [sdq] Device not ready: Sense Key: Not Ready [current]

sd 2:0:1:3: [sdq] Device not ready: Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, manual intervention required end_request: I/O error, dev sdq, sector 0

I have tried booting up without the fiber plugged in and with but neither yield successful results.

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Re: Live CD fails on bootup

Hi dnbrown,
are you sure, that your download was correct. Did you verify md5 sum ?
Are you sure, that you "burned an ISO image" and not a data CD or bootable CD ?

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cmdr

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Re: Live CD fails on bootup

I'm certain this isn't the first time I have used gparted.

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Re: Live CD fails on bootup

Can you identify the involved device [sdq] ? Is it your DVD/CDROM drive or another SCSI device ?
If it's not the first time, you use "GParted", what device name has the CDROM drive ?
What is "fiber", a fiber optic ?  Why should it be involved in the boot process ?