Trying to boot from DVD

Have an h8-1360t with win 7 pro.
Burned a Knoppix DVD that boots and runs fine on my old machine (10 year old IBM PC), but can't get the new HP machine to boot from the DVD.
Went into setup during boot and tried to force it to boot from DVD, but when select dvd drive and hit return, nothing happens.  Stuck in setup menu until I hit escape - which just starts a normal boot from the hard drive.
Tried resetting the boot order, but that was even worse.  Got an error and had to let it go through some kinf of restore operation.

Try disabling Secure boot and enabling Legacy boot in the BIOS then change the boot order.  No guarantee that the DVD will boot as it was based on technology of 10 years ago.  Computer have quite a bit since then.
Please mark my post as SOLVED if it has resolved your problem. It helps others with similar situations.

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