Acer Timeline 3810T

[miegiel]

Hi I've had a read through the forum.. not finding much. would anyone mind confirming if they were able to boot from a usb stick on the Acer 3810tz? Mine just hangs.. I can't what setting might be adjusted as the bios has only limited variables.

Many thanks
Tom

When I need to boot from a USB stick (on different types of machines), I often find the USB sticks listed together with the hard drives in the boot options section BIOS.

[Tombuntu81]

When I need to boot from a USB stick (on different types of machines), I often find the USB sticks listed together with the hard drives in the boot options section BIOS.

thanks Miegiel. But have you you managed to do so on an acer 3810tz? I've done the same, it's definitely set to boot first from the USB.. and clearly the USB is detected but for some reason the system then crashes (it doesn't on my other laptop, a dell).

[TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS]

Are you running the latest version of Ubuntu (12.04)? I had a similar problem on an older Compaq Presario where I had to do acpi=off for all versions after 10.04. I would suggest downloading a 10.04 image and see if it works. If that image works it might mean something has changed and you are seeing a bug. If it still doesn't work.... well.... we can keep bumping this thread until someone else can help

[Tombuntu81]

Are you running the latest version of Ubuntu (12.04)? I had a similar problem on an older Compaq Presario where I had to do acpi=off for all versions after 10.04. I would suggest downloading a 10.04 image and see if it works. If that image works it might mean something has changed and you are seeing a bug. If it still doesn't work.... well.... we can keep bumping this thread until someone else can help

so far I've tried 11.10, 12.04, and also Slitaz 3.0 stable (http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/). Each of these produced an identical result - i.e. the boot haning on the Linux copyright line.

I'm downloading 10.4 right now though - will see how we go. thanks very much
Tom

[Tombuntu81]

Are you running the latest version of Ubuntu (12.04)? I had a similar problem on an older Compaq Presario where I had to do acpi=off for all versions after 10.04. I would suggest downloading a 10.04 image and see if it works. If that image works it might mean something has changed and you are seeing a bug. If it still doesn't work.... well.... we can keep bumping this thread until someone else can help

Ah, success! Actually, I had three USB sticks keys handy. The first produced the result I mentioned, the second wouldnt format at all, and the third worked. So I guess corruption on the USB was probably the error. However, i'd not have tried this without attempting a install of 10.4, so you helped me resolve this. thanks!

Tom

[TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS]

Ah, success! Actually, I had three USB sticks keys handy. The first produced the result I mentioned, the second wouldnt format at all, and the third worked. So I guess corruption on the USB was probably the error. However, i'd not have tried this without attempting a install of 10.4, so you helped me resolve this. thanks!

Tom

Oh good. I have found that sometimes just pushing someone to try stuff helps. Glad you figured it out!!

[Tombuntu81]

Yeah! And now on to the next series of hurdles (installing openelec dual boot)..

[TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS]

Yeah! And now on to the next series of hurdles (installing openelec dual boot)..

You can just install XMBC in Ubuntu. It is in the software center

[Tombuntu81]

yes I realise, thanks, but openelec looks ideal as the system can boot into it directly..

[TREESofRIGHTEOUSNESS]

cool... here are some other options if you are interested

Ubuntu XMBC distro
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMCbuntu

(add a lightdm "session")
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116726

Hope all goes well