Acer Aspire D270

[bicol_willem]

in the case of my new acer (aquired early spring) the problem was in the bios. i had to set the network boot as the first option, hd, external dev etc. if it was not then it would hang at the mouse stage during boot leaving me with a blank screen. it still does this even with the latest kernel if the bios boot order is not correct. be sure the boot from network is enabled. it will give a short network boot error then continue. give this a try.

You just solved a looooong standing problem. Thanks a million!  Now my Emachines D443 boots finally straight into Linux.
Magic!

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,106620.0.html

Where have you been al that time?   

[Serj]

Hi Serj,

"I wonder what prevents update the drivers for Intel?"

Intel. Intel does not like playing with linux.

Intel does not like Linux, but Linux is forced to deal with Intel.  
Have long existed drivers x11-driver-video-intel version 2.19.0~2.20.9, but they are not in our repo.
This lag can cause problems with the new Intel based computers.

[Yankee]

You just solved a looooong standing problem. Thanks a million!  Now my Emachines D443 boots finally straight into Linux.

I wonder if the D270's are safe to buy now with this BIOS setting ?

[Phil]

OK FF to answer your question:

Take a D270 installed with m int maya, up to date, running ok, mic and card reader not working. Change boot order to:

Network
USB HDD
Internal HDD

Take PCLOS 8 2012 KDE

Looks like a long wait, same as booting from F12 Boot Menu.

Not promising, been about 5 mins and hung.

Therefore boot order does not seem to matter on D270, but at this juncture PCLOS will not boot. Maybe in a few months.

[Yankee]

http://www.microcenter.com/product/394499/X54C-RB01_156_Laptop_Computer_-_Black

This one should be safe AFAIK

Only drawback only 2 USB's

Probably be using it if it did.

[alex25502]

@ Phil--I own a Acer Aspire One 270 series with Intel Atom N2600 processor. I have no problem loading KDE 32-bit(2012.06).  I don't know of problems with the mic, since I don't use it!
Everything else seems fine.

Good luck!

[Phil]

Hi Alex,

Typing this on a mintified D270, on the road. Pleased to hear you have it working with PCLOS, will give it another go when I return. I must have tried that version. It would not boot from a live USB. Something must have changed.

I want the mic to work to make phone calls (voip). Perhaps this has been sorted out as well,

Phil

PS Did you do anything different from normal? I applied an iso to a usb stick and nothing I tried would make it boot.

[alex25502]

@Phil,
I used a CD copy of 2012.06 by way of an external usb optical drive,CD burner or DVD burner!

[Just17]

With what did you create the LiveUSB?

I have come across a machine that would not boot from USB unless the first partition was a Win FS and marked as bootable, even though PCLOS was on a second partition with ext4 FS.

[Phil]

From memory I tried unetbootin and the PCLOS proggy, both would not boot. Tried several other options, and different USB drives.

Same system boots clonezilla easily and the green one (currently typing on it)

Will have another go when I get back.

[Just17]

From memory I tried unetbootin and the PCLOS proggy, both would not boot. Tried several other options, and different USB drives.

Same system boots clonezilla easily and the green one (currently typing on it)

Will have another go when I get back.

If I understand correctly Unetbootin uses MS formatted partition/s.

You could try repartitioning the USB drive so that it has a small FAT partition at the beginning, flagged bootable, followed by an ext primary partition and then try PCLOS LiveUSB creator.


An alternative would be to convert the PCLOS ISO to Hybrid, 'burn' it to the USB device and boot from that.

[Phil]

I have retried installing PClinuxOS:

KDE 2013.02 via usb and DVD. Tried every parameter, safe boot, safe graphics, noapic. It stalled and I think it is something to do with the weird intel chips. Try again on next release.

I also tried LXDE 1012.06 as Alex said he got it to work. This also had issues, stalled and got nowhere.

[Yankee]

Somewhere I read the newer kernels would boot a N2600.

[alex25502]

@Phil,
My successful installs, both KDE 32-bit(2012.06) and LXDE-mini(2012.01), went smoothly without any glitches.  I am waiting for the next ISO of XFCE to be released. I've read that the kernel(2.6.38. for it is the same as the above distros that I use.  Good luck!

[Phil]

Hi Alex,

When I am in the mood I will try again. The machine worked well when I was away. Took most of my CDs and DVDs, took some mini speakers, and an HDMI cable. Watched stuff in airports, on planes and had my media collection on tap at the hotel. The device is good for the job.

I have been trying again, times out. Clonezilla on the same stick works. Maybe when new isos are out I will try again. Yes different versions, format ext and fat32, PClinux creator and unetbootin (newly updated). Different parameters as well. Out of ideas.