On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 23:01 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I currently have my Acer Aspire One netbook set up with Fedora 11. I would like to change it over to Centos 5.4 if I can.
I downloaded the Centos 5.4 i386 livecd image and made a bootable USB flash drive out of it. Unfortunately, when I boot off of that flash drive, Grub (I guess) immediately turns the screen entirely white. If I hit a key I can faintly see the outline of "Press tab to change options" or words to that effect. (It's very faint and hard to read against the white background.) That bit of text rapidly scrolls off of the top of the screen, so I assume that the rest of the boot-up messages are being printed.
Hitting Ctrl-Alt-anyFkey does nothing for a while, then every keystroke beeps. I can't get to a text terminal and I never see anything other than a completely white screen.
Am I doing something wrong? Fedora 11 works fine on this machine, and I installed that from a livecd.
---- did you create that USB disk using Fedora or CentOS?
does this relate? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Live_Image_issue...
Your description of the problem reminded me exactly of the problem I had when I tried to do the same thing to install F11 Beta
I can't think of any reason I would put CentOS on my Aspire One...I've got it working well with F12 now
Craig