Hello PC Help Forum,

I am currently running XP Professional on a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop with plenty of computing power. I am attempting to boot from a live cd into another operating system (Ubuntu; Linux). However, when I restart with the live cd in my drive, I am only given the options of booting into XP Professional and XP Home. Is there any safe way to bypass this and boot directlly into the OS on the live CD? The CD was shipped from the manufacturor, so it should be free of errors.

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I guess you did set as first boot device your cd rom? although I think it usually is by default but tell me when the pc starts up do you get an image press a key too boot from cd?

stepes he got it from the manufacturer and didnt burn it himself. To set cd-rom as your first boot device go into the BIOS and select boot options.

yes thats why I edited my post when I reread his :P you were slow

How do you go to the Bios and set boot options. How do you change it back?

[delete this post] even though I think its delele button for bios ^^

Ok when your pc is starting up you will notice something like press F1 (OR ANOTHER KEY) for SETUP. Do that and then look for an option called boot options (probably) and select the first boot device and change to cd-rom and then save changes and restart. To change back do same thing but put it back to normal.

BEATEN: your right i am too slow = ¦ stepes