PC does not recognize live CD

[NoOp]

On 05/10/2010 07:55 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
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> NoOp さんは書きました:
>> On 05/07/2010 10:44 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>> ...
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>>> But since TWO disks actually **DO** boot, the BIOS setting should be OK.
>>>     
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>> This sounds as if the CD's are being burnt at too high a speed for the
>> CD in your system. Be sure to have them burn at the lowest rate of speed
>> possible. I've had this issue in the past where the CD's were burnt at
>> 32x or something & work just find on the machine they were burnt on.
>> However when I'd try them on an old 5 year old laptop they'd fail. I
>> finally figured out that they needed to be burnt at 4x in order to get
>> them to work on the laptop. I'd burn a set & specifically mark them as
>> "A21M Thinkpad Compatible".
>>
>> Oyasuminasai
>>   
> Thank you. THAT sounds (sounded) very promising.
> After quite some effort I finally found out, how to make my drive burn 
> slower. The lowest I could achieve was 8x.
> BUT ... this disk is also not recognized.
> I set the BIOS to read from CD-ROM first. Does not help.
> 
> In response to someones question about equipment.
> I used the same equipment for buring the "9.04" (which boots) and the 
> "10.4" (or 9.10; which does not boot regardless of whether is has been 
> burned at 48x or at 8x)
> Could it be, that the empty CD itself (brand) could be responsible??
> 

Possible. Try burning a knoppix or other similar liveCD from the same
brand and see if that works.

http://www.knoppix.net/
 http://knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html