I just had a new Asus EeePC R051CX. Out of the box, the installed OS is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but I am trying to install Peppermint OS three (as single boot).

Problem. Once on live CD (well, live USB stick...), I'm in trouble in both following situations:

• Try Peppermint OS Live
  In this case, the first thing I get is a message reading

  The system is running in low-graphics mode
  Your screen, graphics card, and input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself.

  I can solely press "return" to accept, then I have a list of 4 options to answer the question "What would you like to do?". But I simply can't do anything at this moment, except switching to console mode or rebooting (keyboard / mouse controls don't allow me to do anything else).

• Install Peppermint OS
  Something I really don't understand... it launches the Ubuntu Recovery Media (which was already installed when I received the device)! Also, it says in the bottom

  ERROR: This recovery media only functions on Ubuntu systems.

  All I can do is quit (that is, reboot).

One last important thing that comes to my mind: this stick worked just fine on the other computers I've tried it on. I really hope someone could bring me the light, a friend of mine told me how cool this OS is for EeePCs. Don't want to give up! Thanks.

Edit

I finally could install Peppermint, but not by understanding why I couldn't do it the logical way. Instead, I reinstalled Ubuntu myself (erasing the factory one). Then, I could simply boot on my live USB and perform a fresh install of Peppermint.

So, I still don't know how and why the mentioned problem occurred.