Hi,

I have a Toshiba Equium A60 and currently trying to install Mandrake 2009 on it. I created a boot CD from the iso image and have verified this by booting the live C on my desktop.

Things however get interesting when I put it into my laptop. When trying to boot from CD it just treats its as an unbootable CD. When I browse to it in Windows it just appears as a blank CD.

To check the CD I put it back in my desktop and I can see the files as they appear in the .iso. I have also tried an Ubuntu CD in the laptop with the same thing happening.

Any ideas please?!

James

I know this is an old post, so the original poster may have moved on long ago, but just in case someone lands here in the future, I'll provide a fix for similar symptoms that worked for me:
I too had a Windows PC and used a commercial burning program (Nero is my favorite) for creating various boot CD's to try different Linux distro's. I too had no problem reading them on the PC I burned it from but could sometimes not read it on other machines. I stumbled upon a fix for my situation when I noticed that the (very cheap) CD's I had purchased were rated for a much slower burn speed than my CD burner could run and I was burning them faster than their rated speed. Once I manually forced the burn speed to slow down to the rated speed, it resolved the issue.
I really don't understand why the original machine could read it and others could not, but at least this particular "fix" worked for me and might be worth a try for others with the same symptoms.

Hope this helps,
Growlor