Re: [ILUG-BOM] Kubuntu on Acer Aspire One (AAO)

On Sunday 16 Nov 2008, Rony wrote:

I am trying to boot a live Kubuntu 8.04 ( KDE 3 as well as 4 ) CD into the Aspire One with XP Home pre-loaded but the boot stops at an initramfs prompt.

Try booting from a USB pendrive image, search for uunetboot utility. The utility creates an USB image out of a LiveCD image.

In the AAO, on hitting F12, the third option is the USB DVD drive and I get the initial boot options. After selecting the default live option, the boot process moves up to the initial part and then stops at the initramfs prompt. I believe this is due to some driver issue.

I have not had much success booting off of external USB DVD devices.