I've been using Ubuntu at my job now for several years & have felt comfortable enough with it to now begin replacing my PC's at home with it before the EOL for Windows XP. I'm replacing my older WinXP machine with version 13.04 from a DVD burned from the iso image. I installed 13.04 on another system, that was newer, using a USB drive & I had no problem changing the BIOS to boot from the USB & was able to get the OS up & running with no problem. When I change the settings on the older PC to boot from the CDROM, I get a DOS message saying "Searching for boot record...Not found" & asked to try again when I try to install the OS. Is there a reason why I can boot from a USB on a newer computer but can't boot using the CDROM from the older one? The system on the older PC was built on 12/13/01 by American Megatrends & it uses an AMD processor. Here's an image of the error I get on my attempts:
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