PC does not recognize live CD

[Colin Law]

On 6 May 2010 15:05, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> Good evening
> I did have the same problem with 9.10:
> when I insert the live CD into the drive, the computer boots from HDD
> and apparently "mounts" the CD,
> but it shows absolutely no intention to boot from it.
> When I put the same CD in my desktop Windows machine, it does what it is
> supposed to do.
>
> AND, the note PC I am using for Linux DID/DOES recognize/boot from a
> live CD of Ubuntu 9.04 (that is why I have that system installed - thus,
> the drive is not broken).

You could try checking that the image is correct and the cd is burned
correctly by checking it's md5sum.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM shows how to check this using
md5sum /dev/cdrom
and where to find the correct sum.
This will rule out any issues downloading or burning.

Colin