sheilah
November 24th, 2011, 12:18 AM
Hi, I appreciate any help anyone can give. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 on an Acer that currently has 9.1 on it. I downloaded the file, copied it to a cd but it wouldn't auto install. I went and changed the BIOS order to put CD at the top followed by USBs. No luck booting from the CD. I wasn't sure if I was burning the cds correctly, so I got a usb and used the utility in 9.1 to burn to the usb for an installation. That got me a little further in that the system read the usb and tried to boot from there but then gave me the following error message:
SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Unknown keyword in configuration file.
boot:
(blinking cursor)
I then went and did the check sum to make sure the hash on the file matched the hash on the website, and it did. I'm not at all technically inclined so I am absolutely clueless as to what to try next. Any help you can give me would be super appreciated. I want to get the laptop up and running for my son by the time his birthday rolls around so that he and his friends can play minecraft at his party. Thanks again.
SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright (c) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Unknown keyword in configuration file.
boot:
(blinking cursor)
I then went and did the check sum to make sure the hash on the file matched the hash on the website, and it did. I'm not at all technically inclined so I am absolutely clueless as to what to try next. Any help you can give me would be super appreciated. I want to get the laptop up and running for my son by the time his birthday rolls around so that he and his friends can play minecraft at his party. Thanks again.