PC does not recognize live CD

[chris]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:55 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> 
> NoOp さんは書きました:
> > On 05/07/2010 10:44 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> > ...
> >   
> >> But since TWO disks actually **DO** boot, the BIOS setting should be OK.
> >>     
> >
> > 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??
> 


Short answer yes.  There are some very flaky brands out there.
Generally Verbatim is ok, but I have come across some Verbatims that
were manufactured by some other firm that were terrible
cheers the kiwi