My laptop wont boot Mandrake?

[radon]

Why is this? I burned the drake 9.0 Iso, and I put it in the laptop to install so I hit esc to go to the boot menu, then I hit DVD/Cd rom and then it will just boot windows xp like normal. What is the problem?

[Xeroid]

Did you burn the Mandrake disks as a file or a disk image? If you don't burn it as a disk image you can't boot to it.

Have a look at this link for instructions:

http://www.linuxiso.org/viewdoc.php/howtoburn.html

There is also a link on that page that covers verifying your download thru MD5 sums to make sure your download was not corrupted.


Mike

[SeanC]

What model laptop is it? I know some models of IBM don't allow you to boot into anything that MS didn't make. There's one at my work that I was trying to install Linux on. After doing some reading I found it and several other models don't allow running any type of *nix install on them. There was a workaround but it was complex.

Sean