Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Conny Enström]

2011-12-23 23:24, Liam Proven skrev:
> I have an AOA110. It's the old one with 512MB RAM and an 8GB SSD (the
> faster Samsung model.)
>
> It runs Linpus. I'd like to replace this with something newer.
>
> It will boot Ubuntu (well, Mint 9) off an /install/ on a USB stick, no problems.
>
> What it won't do is boot any live distro. I've tried Ubuntu 11.10,
> Meego and ChromeOS. They just display the SYSLINUX message and then
> freeze solid.
>
> The BIOS is current, but I've updated it just in case.
>
> There are few options to twiddle in this machine.
>
> Anyone have any idea what's up?
>

Try the text install version of Ubuntu.