PLS HELP: Booting Mandriva 2006 FREE

[Seanypoops]

dear linux users
I was hoping someone would be able to be offer some advice on a problem i'm having with the Mandriva 2006 FREE live disc. I can't seem to get the disc to boot without getting dropped to the shell. This is the information it reports:

Mounting loop image on /initrd/loopfs: mount: Mounting /dev/loop/0 on initrd/loopfs failed
:Invalid argument
[FAILED]
ERROR: Unable to mount loop filesystem, Droppping you to a limited shell.
Commands were:
losetup /dev/loop/0 initrd/cdrom/livecd.sqfs
mount -r -t squashfs /dev/loop/0 initrd/loopfs
Loading /initrd/bin/ash

BusyBox v1.01
Enter help for commands
/initrd/bin/ash: can't access tty; job control turned off.
$

I hope this information can help somebody. i dont understand any of it! I would love to try it out though so if you could offer some advice i'd definately appreciate that.

[beagle2]

Either trysome of the boot options at the initial boot prompt ie linux noapic nolapic acpi=off or try burning the iso image again at a slower speed.

[Kojak]

The errors you got are an indication that you apparently got a bad burn. Burn the CD-image again at a lower speed.