Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Carlos Alberto Alves]

On 01/08/2012 08:04 PM, Scott wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>

I also have this same machine and worked out-of-the-box. I do not use 
any sd cards.  :|
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