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_issues 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.