VMWare ESXi - Can't boot fom CD

[dinker]

What I did was this - downloaded the ISO then mounted it on a virtual CD drive & burned the contents to disk

Just use IMGBURN like everybody else, if you burn the files contained in the ISO to a CD they won`t be in the right place for a bootable disk. Boot sectors have to be in a specific place.

Edit: You are making hard work of this!

[pmeswani]

What I did was this - downloaded the ISO then mounted it on a virtual CD drive & burned the contents to disk

That would probably be a good reason for it not to boot. You need an ISO burning tool (commercial tools such as Nero would do. Freeware tools are available).

[Ardesco]

Been pondering giving this one a go, but never got round to it as I have a paid up copy of Nero:

http://infrarecorder.org/

May be worth a pop

[voodooflux]

Just use IMGBURN...

WHS, great little utility. Although Windows 7 (and Vista I think?) has built-in support for burning ISO images - just right click on the ISO file and choose "Burn disc image".

[wurzel]

Yep, that's it - it's working now. I used NTI CD burner which has an option to burn from ISO image. Contents of the disk look exactly the same as the dodgy one when I view it in window explorer though. Thanks for the help.

[Churchill]

What I did was this - downloaded the ISO then mounted it on a virtual CD drive & burned the contents to disk

Gimp!

That doesn't make the CD bootable!

FFS!

Read up on boot-sectors. Might just give you a technical grounding.