A couple of notes here : 
You *can* boot a live session using both a USB and a CD, here are the steps :

Note 1 :
Step 1 : Burn ISO image to a CD
Step 2 : dd or use usb-creator to write ISO to a usb thumbdrive
Step 3 : Insert both the CD and the USB disk during the boot sequence and hold 
down 'C' to boot the CD
Step 4 : Wait for everything to load and proceed with installation ( At this 
point, you can remove the CD since the session is being run from the USB thumb 
drive )

Note 2 :
Interestingly, my DVD/CD drive does work if you hold the 'option' key during 
the boot sequence, if you use reFit the drive is not recognized. I would highly 
recommend using the option key to boot the other OS because that way most of 
your hardware works out of the box ( I couldn't get my backlight controls to 
work either with reFit )

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  DVD drive doesn't work on MacBookPro8,2

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