PC does not recognize live CD - I give up!

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Blasejewicz" <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:52:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: PC does not recognize live CD - I give up! 

Basil Chupin さんは書きました: 
> On 13/05/10 23:56, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: 
> 
> I take it that what you are saying here is that the disc boots OK on all 
> other computers EXCEPT your own. Am I correct in this? 
> 
> 
Good evening from Japan 
I am really sorry to have wasted your time on this. 
Today I went (rather drove) to a computer shop and spoke with the people 
there about the problem. 
Response: incomprehensible! Maybe the motherboard or some other piece of 
hardware somewhere 
does not feel like working with Linux .... 
(some disks boot, others not; is Linux 'just' moody?) 

So ... what would be the conclusions? 
Linux works ONLY with some very selected pieces of highly advanced hardware? 
It requires that you have a team of highly educated technicicans available? 

For a non-computer freak = an average consumer = me, 
there is *DEFINITELY* (my experience after +3 years of trying) nothing 
user-friendly, easy, or for that matter better in Linux than in the 
despised "Windoze"; 
regarding the present problem I asked questions here and elsewhere, very 
knowledgable personsin private, the professionals in a computer shop = 
nowhere anybody can come up with solutions to something that should not 
be a problem in the first place ... 

By now I have given up hope and consider this case closed. 
(maybe some people even remember that I caused some commotion with a 
similar problem several months ago, when I could not "mount" a floppy 
under 9.10 - which later, after a very unpleasant discussion, turned out 
to be a bug in 9.10; that too was a problem that should not even exist 
in the first place ...) 

Thank you for all your advice. 
Signing off. 











For what it's worth, I once had a situation where a CD booted OK on several computers, but not on one that I wanted to install *buntu to. The cause was that I burned the disk at too high a speed...disc errors I suppose. After burning the disc at 4X (instead of 48X), it worked fine. 

Paul
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