I have had similar problems like this in the past. In my case, I installed a 
different optical drive I had around and all booted fine after that.

HTH
Paul


On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 17:00 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote:

> Hi all,  I have a  a dell computer with XP in it.I downloaded EMC with 
> Ubuntu 10.04 and burnt a desktop dvd.  I turn the machine of and restart 
> with the dvd in the drive.  IT starts reading the DVD the little dots 
> keep changing color on the splash screen as expected but the operation 
> comes to a stop and Ubuntu does not open so you can run it or install 
> it.  I have downloaded  and burned two separate disks and also tried 
> tried a couple others of Ubuntu 10.04 only. None of them will open and 
> run or install. They appear to be loading up to a certain point.  I 
> guess there is something in the bios that needs to be changed, any 
> ideas  ???                                                            
>                  Doug

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