Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Scott]

Liam Proven <lproven <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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?

I have successfully installed several versions of Ubuntu and Chrome OS on an 
AOA110 simply by making sure the SD card is not installed.  When I forget, it 
doesn't work.  I'm not sure what would cause this, except the boot loader 
getting confused by the presence of the SD card during installation.

As a note, I have upgraded the RAM to 1.5GB.  But I don't think that has 
anything to do with it.