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Live DVD wil not boot on laptop

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:12 pm
by mazway
I can not boot live Dvd on Compaq laptop. I can boot live CDs Mint or suse. I can play movies with DVDs. I have several good Mint KDE Dvds that I burned. I installed it on my desktop. It works great. The best distro yet. I would like to replace the Mint gnome with kde on my laptop, but it goes straight into the old grub menu. Any ideas about what's going on?

Re: Live DVD wil not boot on laptop

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:42 pm
by mazway
el_b wrote:Maybe some setting in your bios?
Well could be, but the Win XP and the mint on the laptop doesn't see the Live DVD either.

Re: Live DVD wil not boot on laptop

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:32 am
by mazway
OK! It was the the media used or the way I recorded it. I tried a Live BDS that I burned with same problem. A Live Sabyon a friend gave me worked. So, it is the DVD player being too choosy on the laptop. They all worked on my desktop. Thanks for the reply.