PC does not recognize live CD

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/07/2010 04:32 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 07/05/10 19:36, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>    
>> Steve Grace さんは書きました:
>>
>>      
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>>            The 10.04 LiveCD is bad and it comes up with a blank screen
>>>> with two tiny things near the bottom. When you see these try typing Esc
>>>> and maybe it will work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> The 10.04 live CD works fine here. It's just different from previous
>>> versions; instead of asking questions about language, what you want to
>>> do, etc., up front, it asks near the end of the boot process. Be patient.
>>>
>>> I've seen the two icons in question; does anyone know what they're
>>> supposed to represent?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> It does not seem to work that way here.
>> Pressing "esc" at **ANY** time has no effect. The computer ALWAYS boots
>> from the HDD
>> BIOS is set to boot from CD-ROM first.
>> LiveCDs that DO work:
>> Ubuntu 9.04
>> Debian
>>
>> LiveCDs that DO NOT work:
>> Ubuntu 9.10
>> Ubuntu 10.4
>> Ubuntu 8.10 etc.
>> Mandriva
>> Fedora 10
>> OpenSUSE just tried 10.3
>> Puppy
>> PCLOS
>> etc.
>>
>> So, of all the disks I have (tested) TWO actually work (=meaning that
>> the computer is functioning and booting from CD is possible.
>> The others don't.
>> To answer another question: except the "debian" disk, ALL disks
>> (including the one that works = 9.04) were prepared using my Windows
>> machine:
>> exactly the same equipment, same stack of new CDs etc.
>>
>> WHAT is the difference between a live Ubuntu 9.04 and a live Ubuntu
>> 9.10/10.4 etc.
>> Since one actually DOES work, it cannot be the computer, can it?
>> Also, someone suggested downloading a new file, burn the CD again.
>> Does not work. This time I downloaded both the English 10.04 as well as
>> the Japanese localized version of 10.4. Neither works.
>> And I tried this before: downloading 2-3 times, burning new disks. But
>> that did not help.
>>
>> What magic is required to make this thing work???
>>
>>      
> Why not burn them using Ubuntu? Install k3b and burn the image with it.
>
> BC
>
>
>    
         Come on guys this is a dead herring! Both the 9.10 and 10.04 
LiveCD's are weird and have problems that a new convert from Windows 
will have problems with. The people at Ubuntu need to look at the 
problem and fix it. I suggest they just go back to the 9.04 design.

73 Karl


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