This was the error message which came on booting Mint 11 Live CD on a new machine. The bootable CD was created using Ubuntu 'Startup Disk Creator'. After googling I found the solution was to type live at the prompt
boot: live
Source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/trying-to-boot-linux-mint-9-from-usb-flash-drive-vesamenu-c32-not-a-com32r-image-829397/
boot: live
Source: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-mint-84/trying-to-boot-linux-mint-9-from-usb-flash-drive-vesamenu-c32-not-a-com32r-image-829397/
