Boot from CD

[goodtimetribe at gmail.com]

i havent seen anyone come up with the most basic of basic checks though,
maybe it did and maybe i missed the answer:

does it boot with any other cd?

answering that question will narrow the scope to either the disk or to the system

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Skip Guenter wrote:
> F12 is most common on Dells but could be F1, F2 or ESC to get to the "boot
> option" menu right during BIOS check.  Sometimes you can just set it in the
> BIOS boot order to look at the CD first.
> 
> On 03/03/2013 03:00 PM, Dan Healy wrote:
> 
>     F12 does not let me choose a boot device.  I have an ASUS X54C-MS91 Laptop
>     Computer.  It came with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit).  I
>     burned an Ubuntu 12.04 CD in June of last year when I got this computer and
>     used it to create my current system.  When I looked at the contents it
>     looks just like the one I burned today.
> 
>     Dan  H
> 
>     On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Lee Sharp <[1]leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> 
>         On 03/03/2013 01:45 PM, Dan Healy wrote:
> 
>             I did "open with brasero" and got the same results, 9 folders,
>             boot,
>             casper, dists, install, isolinux, pics, pool, preseed, ubuntu, and
>             4
>             files, autorun.inf, md5sum.txt, README.diskdefines, and wubi.exe.
> 
> 
>         So if the CD shows that, it looks good.  What kind of computer are you
>         on?  Can you hit F12 to choose a boot device?
> 
>                                 Lee
> 
> 
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