OT - new computer won't boot live CD

[shimi]

2012/4/20 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>
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> 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.
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> 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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I would guess it is related to the lack of proper SATA driver module
built into the kernel / included in initramfs. Try Gentoo's LiveDVD :)

It would probably be easiest, if possible (really depends on the
chipset and you've got Intel), to enable Legacy IDE Emulation for your
SATA in the BIOS Setup. That way, it will need an IDE driver instead,
and that's much more standard and supported...

Good luck,

-- Shimi