Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Liam Proven]

On Jan 9, 2012 9:29 PM, "Jon Mirow" <gnu.mirow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Just wondering how you created the USB? it's definitely possible as you
can launch the installer off of the stick. Did you use unetbootin to
create? To the best of my knowledge you can't use the dd command to create
11.x live USB's
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Carlos Alberto Alves <
drcaa at predialnet.com.br> wrote:
>>
>> 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.  :|

I used unetbootin.

Oddly, 12.04 Just Worked™ with no problems.

I tried Meego & Hexxus' Chrome OS in Virtualbox. Neither would boot; it
said the IMG file was not a valid image. VMware booted Meego just fine but
although the installer ran happily, the result would not boot. It could not
even boot Chrome OS.

Odd.
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