You burned the .iso image to a CD properly and maybe can even get it to run on a computer, but there's one computer where it won't work. You put the CD in, you reboot and it goes straight into whatever operating system is already installed. No problem. You probably just have to change the boot sequence in BIOS.
When you boot up your computer, before you see "Windows" or "Ubuntu" (or whatever your OS may be) there appears a black screen with characters, then a screen that may have the logo of the company that made your desktop or laptop hardware. Watch the lower part of the screen, particularly towards the right side. There should be mention of "Setup," "Options" or "BIOS Settings." Something like that anyway. It will tell you which key to hit, and this varies from computer to computer. It may be F10, F12 or some other. These keys can be found at the very top of your keyboard. Hit the key before the boot-up goes any further.
In the next screen you should see options for settings, and you are looking for something like "Boot Priority" or "Boot Sequence." Once you find it you will probably see that CD is listed after HDD. This means that when your computer is booting up it checks the hard drive first for further instructions, and thus it boots your installed OS from there. Change the priority so that CD is checked before HDD, then exit out (there should be an option for this). Reboot with the live CD in the tray and everything should be fine.
If the solution above doesn't work for you, let me know in the comments.
For help on how to burn a live CD:
BurningIsoHowto (Ubuntu Community Documentation)
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