How to determine why a burned DVD won't boot?

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So I have an interesting problem where a burned DVD of "debian-7.2.0-ia64-CD-1.iso" won't boot.

The DVD is a DVD+RW. I have tried erasing, burning, and booting from "debian-live-7.0.0-i386-gnome-desktop+nonfree.iso" and that works fine, but I would rather install debian 7.2 with the x86-64 architecture.

After burning "debian-7.2.0-ia64-CD-1.sio", I can mount the CD as well and it appears that all the files show up correctly.

I was just wondering if there is any sort of boot sector I can try inspecting on the ISO to see if perhaps it is incorrect.

Thanks!

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