Problem installing on an Acer Aspire One

[Scott]

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

> 
> 
> 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.
>

I tried to follow the instructions in several locations to install the Hexxeh 
build of Chromium Lime using dd, but it never worked.  I found another set of 
directions that used a different utility (I don't have the name of it right now, 
but it was USB-(something) in the repositories).  Looked like this utility used 
dd in the background, but whatever it did seemed to work.  The thing with 
Chromium is it uses a .IMG file, so the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator (which I 
normally use) and unetbootin didn't seem to support that.

So after sorting out the correct stick creation utility and making sure I had no 
SD card in the SD slot, it installed just fine.