Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Liam Proven]

2011/12/24 Conny Enström <uncurbed at swipnet.se>:
> 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.

Since it's not even getting as far as trying to load the kernel, on 3
different distros, do you think this is likely to make much
difference?

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