On Sunday 16 Nov 2008, Rony wrote:
>
> I am trying to boot a live Kubuntu 8.04 ( KDE 3 as well as 4 ) CD
> into the Aspire One with XP Home pre-loaded but the boot stops at an
> initramfs prompt.


Try booting from a USB pendrive image, search for uunetboot utility.  
The utility creates an USB image out of a LiveCD image.

> In the AAO, on hitting F12, the third option is the USB DVD drive and
> I get the initial boot options. After selecting the default live
> option, the boot process moves up to the initial part and then stops
> at the initramfs prompt. I believe this is due to some driver issue.

I have not had much success booting off of external USB DVD devices.

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Arun Khan

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