PC does not recognize live CD

[Avi Greenbury]

Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> 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

I appear to have missed the vast bulk of this thread, but have you 
considered just installing Ubuntu 9.04 and upgrading in-place to 9.10 
then 10.04?
It's more bandwidth heavy and hassle, but would remove the need to get a 
10.04 or 9.10 disc working and leaves you in much the same position.

All I can think of that'd be different is you'd use ext3 filesystems and 
'old' Grub for bootloading, rather than ext4 and Grub2; you'd not be 
missing much, and if you decide you are it is often possible if 
convoluted to upgrade afterwards.

The issues with the non-booting discs do sound interesting, though I can 
understand your preference is likely to just not have them rather than 
expend much in the way of excess time and effort investigating them. :)

Have you filed any bugs to their effect?

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Avi Greenbury