"bootable" cd

I have a supposibly boottable Windows XP Home disk but when I set the CDrom as first boot device in Bios all I get during the boot process is : Boot From CD -for a second or so and then XP (one installed) continues to load.
Does my CD-ROM drive have to be compatible or somthing?



Also a quick Q- In the boot menu, what does LS-120(something like that) stand for?

there's a couple things you need to have to get a bootable CD working:

-set the first boot device to CDROM, like you did.
-set "Boot other device" to Enable. Your option may be named different.
-have a bootable CD and a drive that supports booting, of course.

You may also have to have it as master drive of it's channel. A guy told me about this drive he had that would only boot if it was Master of channel one. But I don't know if I believe that.

LS-120 is the setting for that type of drive, also called a "Superdrive". It was a special drive that could read & write regular 1.44MB floppies, as well as 120MB superdisks. They weren't very popular and hardly anybody has one, but for some reason BIOS support for it lives on.

Thanks a lot Monaco

With mine, you have to hit a key when it's displaying "boot from cd", otherwise it will continue with the boot order (harddrives being next on the list).