Making DVD Bootable

[mac38751]

I'm trying to get my DVD to boot. I have burned the .iso file to the dvd but it won't boot. I have nero 7 if anyone could guide me through or tell me a better program to use.

 

B.

[Ferret-Simpson]

CDBurnerXP Pro.

 

 

May sound like a stupid question, but there are lots of stupid people to answer for.

 

 

 

 

 

You've tried another disk you know is bootable, right?

[DanS]

I have used Nero to burn OSX DVDs and they work fine.

 

I'm going to assume that you have never burned a DVD from an .iso image before; you cannot just burn the .iso file to the DVD. I'm also going from memory on the Nero program so don't flame me.

I'm one of those stupid people.

 

 

- In Nero choose the DVD tab in the upper right corner.

- Run your mouse over the icons at the top (five or six of them) until you come to the icon that gives you a choice below it to burn disk from image file. The choice is in the second column, first or second down.

- In the next window, choose the ISO image you want to burn, then click OK.

- In the next window, choose the DVD burner drive.

- Change the burning speed from "Maximum" to 1x or 2x. The lower burning speed seems to work best, and you have less of a chance of a buffer underrun (converts DVD disks to "coasters")

- Choose burn disk, then go have a cold adult beverage or two. (Make sure you use one of those "coasters" to keep the water off the countertop)

 

This should give you a bootable DVD disk.

 

 

Also make sure that the BIOS in your PC is set to boot to the DVD drive first; or if you have one of those new PCs that allows you to hit a Function key and choose the boot option, choose it from there.

 

 

Good Luck.

[mac38751]

Thanks, I got it to boot. Installed OSX and everything seems to be running fine.