Not booting to CD-ROM selected in Bios

[Charles]

Hardware

Dell Inspiron 8600 with latest Bios A14

Problem

After selecting to boot 1st from CD-ROM in Bios computer will keep booting to HD. I have dual booting DOS, RedHat so it goes to the Grub Screen automatically bypassing the 1st boot device, the CD-ROM. When I deselect HDD as 2nd booting device it gives me a message that it will not boot with option to enter SETUP again.

Any ideas?

[doctorgonzo]

What CD are you trying to boot? Have you tried another bootable CD?

[bailey]

I have seen some that say to boot from the cd press F1 or any other key, it may be on you screen so fast that you don't see it.

[Charles]

Booting to a Fedora Core V2 CD. I am choosing F12 in this laptop and choosing to boot from CD-RW, however the Dual Boot GRUB menu still comes up. I have a feeling Grub is the problem

[Charles]

Found the culprit. Turn out to be a bad, brand new, bootable 1st CD with Fedora Core.