I don't have "the" answer for you, but it seems likely that (as long as the disk was burnt at a slow speed) you need some "cheat codes" to help the boot process with hardware detection. Try following the documentation link near te top of this page and read up on cheat codes in the wiki. Common ones that sometimes help are nodma (assuning you are using version 5.0.1, you didn't say what version you have), noscsi, acpi=off, and any of the video related ones (there should be one that uses a generic video driver if you think it may be a video issue). And I like both the failsafe boot, which is an awful way to run but might let you learn what is going wrong in the boot process and also the expert mode boot so that you can answer hardware questions and take notes; if you find out what boot choice causes the lock-up, boot again and answer the question differently.