On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:30:46 -0700, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
>My HP laptop presents the same as in the comment above with a slight
>difference in the F9 prompt -- I used the upgrade bay to get to the DVD
>boot.  I have contacted HP technical support to discover any solution
>and will post a solution if there is interest; this seems to be a common
>problem with this vendor.  If you have encountered a similar situation,
>please let me know.
>
>Yasha Karant
>=========================================================================

Yasha,

I can verify that this is an issue with the Elitebook 2530p as well.  This 
seems to be a BIOS issue (since the issue spans multiple distributions), 
and is not limited to CDs.  For example, a USB image created with dd will 
result in the same lockup, but a FAT32 formatted device imaged with 
UNetbootin will work fine.  Just pure speculation at this point, but 
perhaps this is a security measure?  The workaround, as you have pointed 
out, is the CD tray trick, or using UNetbootin to create a bootable USB 
device.

Regards,

Joe Kiser