OT - new computer won't boot live CD

[Shlomo Solomon]

I apologize since this is probably OT, but I'm hoping someone on the list can 
help.
I'm trying to boot a new computer with a live CD. I've tried Mandriva 2010 and 
2011, Kubuntu, Puppy, Fedora 16. All of them fail to boot and drop to CLI. The 
error messages are different in each case. I'm including the Fedora error 
message as an example. 

============== Fedora error message ==============
dracut Warning: No root device "live:/dev/disk/by-label/Fedora-16-x86_64-Live-
KDE.iso" found 
Dropping to debug shell
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
dracut:/#
===========================================

Obviously, the problem is with the computer since several live CDs fail, but I 
have no idea what I should be looking for. I tried booting from an ULTILEX 5 
CD and was able to run various utilities, such as Memtest, hardware detection, 
stress test, etc. But Puppy and SLAX on that CD would also not boot. 

Just to provide more info which may or may not be relevant, the computer is 
i7-2600, an ASUS motherboard, 8 Gb memory, 1 Tb disk (not yet formatted) and a 
Gigabyte GTX5600 video card. The DVD I'm trying to boot from is SATA.


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Shlomo Solomon
http://the-solomons.net
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