MBP shuts down after booting from a disc

How is everyone doing? I hope okay with their macs!
Well, if I boot from my MacBook Pro Install discs, the computer boots off of the discs.
But if I try booting off any media that I burned, the computer shuts down automatically.
What I do:
Put in the disc (I tried both DiskWarrior and Drive Genius 2),
hold down the C key,
the apple logo displays,
the discs starts to spin louder (like if it were to start reading it),
then the computer restarts after showing the spinning wheel for about half a second.
I thought that maybe it had to do with me adding a firmware password as requested by Orbicule's Undercover... so I removed the firmware password and I still got the same results.
Does anyone know why this is happening [to me]?
Any replies or comments are thanked in advance.

I found out why... its because I have the new macbook pro with the penryn processor.
Penryn processor's fault.
End of story.

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