[SOLVED] How do I use a livecd on CentOS 5.5 in VMWare?

[pauhn]

I have centos 5.5 on vmware, and I'm trying to boot up from the live cd so that I can fix some issues that I'm having. I have vmware pointing at my cd drive, I mount the cdrom and when I ls, it lists the contents of the cd. But when I go to reboot centos, it doesn't boot from the cd and just boots normally.

How can I fix this?

[Rubberman]

You probably need to tell VMWare to boot from the CD instead of the virtual hard drive. Not sure how you do that, but I use VirtualBox and it behaves the same way. I can enable the CD for a virtual machine, and have it boot from that so I do rescue operations. One thing I can do with VirtualBox is to keep snapshots of the virtual hard drive, which I do regularly, Then, if something breaks, it is often easier to just reset the snapshot than try to fix the problem on the fly. That's why I keep my system "drive", and working data in separate virtual discs, just like I do on my physical workstation.

[pauhn]

So, at the splash screen, you're supposed to hit F2, and that'll get you to the place to change boot order. Turns out the answer was fairly simple.

I hope this will help someone in the future.