Critical problem with all F11 LiveCDs

[Ryan Rix]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> I recently purchased a "Acer - Aspire One Netbook AO751H-1346" which
> comes without an optical drive.
> 
> The following installation methods via USB drive failed:
> - Live (gnome)
> - Live-KDE
> - Live-XFCE
> - netboot.iso to disk as live image

No problems on EEE 1000HE with both netboot.iso and Live-KDE installed both 
fedora live-usb creator and unetbootin, here. Are you verifying md5 if you 
downloaded iso by hand? What about trying to boot with various kernel 
arguments (specify them in the syslinux.cfg) such as noacpi and various 
others?

> 
> I eventually got an 8GB usb drive, and following instructions to
> create two partitions, installing boot.iso to the first, and placing
> the DVD iso on the second partition -- I'm not a big fan of the DVD
> install -- but it worked.
> 
> Definition of "failed" : BIOS seems to successfully pass off execution
> to the boot loader on the USB drive, then display goes white. Pressing
> any key causes "press [Tab] key to change options" message to scroll
> by under the white screen. Booting of Live image shows no sign of
> continuing to boot. And everything is unresponsive until restart.
> 
> I tried 3 USB drives of various ages.
> 
> This is currently the only Fedora list that I am on, and I am not sure
> what component I should file a bug against, yet I think that this is
> an important enough problem to follow up on.

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