Hi If you are trying to install on a lappy, check if this works On the boot prompt, say "linux acpi-off noacpi" in case of an Install CD or "live acpi=off noacpi" if you are booting from a Live CD This will let u boot from the CD If you can boot fine and would like to stick to Ubuntu, you gotta make changes to your /boot/grub/menu.lst later to avoid any such issues Please do update me if this acpi thing works for you Regards and Cheers CeeTee <div>On 2/9/06, Jay Ridgley <<a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Folks, I am new at ubuntu, however, not new to computers or Linux. I am trying to do my first instal and I can not get the CD-ROM to boot I have set the system BIOS to select SCSI as the boot device first and have set the ID of the CD-ROM drive to be the default boot device (ID 5) in the SCSI controller BIOS. When I try to boot I get into a loop (in the BIOS) that says a bootable CD was found and the digit 0 as the choice for which system image to boot (there is only one choice listed). However, nothing I have tried causes it to boot from the CD. It just continues to cycle trying to boot. What am I missing? In a word HELP. I have booted from the drive before with another version of Linux. Regards, Jay -- Jay Ridgley <a href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a> home: 512-255-0894 cell: 512-626-4280 -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Email message scanned by Norton Antivirus No virus found in email ----------------------------------------------------------------