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I am trying to install arch on my Eee PC 900ha but am having some trouble.
I downloaded the 2008.06 usb .img install and copied it to my USB stick using dd command as shown in the wiki. I cant get arch to load from it though.
I have two different usb sticks I have tried this from. The first is a kingston 8GB drive. When I try to boot from that, it flashes a quick message that I believe says something about no OS but it flashes to quick to read. Then just boots to windows.
The second is actually an SD card in a USB reader. When I try to boot from that, I am left with just a flashing cursor in the upper left and nothing else ever loads.
Is there something else I need to do? Does anything need to be done to the drives before I copy arch to it?
Thanks,
Joe
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Here is one possible cause for the BIOS not seeing the OS.
What are you using for the of? something like /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1
You need to use dd in the form
dd if=path_to_.iso of=/dev/sdb
sdb points to the device, and this will properly install the MBR
sdb1 points to a partition on the device and using it will not allow the USB stick to boot properly because the MBR will be in the wrong place.
Pudge
EDIT: This is already stated in the Wiki so this probably isn't your error
Last edited by Pudge (2008-12-31 04:25:38)
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Ahhhhh, that was the problem. Apparently I only read the first sentence of that line. I actually double checked the wiki b/c I was sure it didn't say that. But you are absolutely right, it does say that and that was exactly my problem, I was using sdb1.
Thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate the help. It's loading fine now but I will attempt the install tomorrow.
Thanks again,
Joe
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Hmm, that's strange. With the 2008.06 iso I couldn't boot from USB (Grub stage 1.5 read error), although I did use of=/dev/sdb. Luckily, with tpowa's 2008.12 iso (which is based on Syslinux) I am able to boot. Perhaps it has something to do with the BIOS of my very new EEE Box B202.
OT: hmmm, it seems I can better wait for kernel 2.6.28 being available in core (Ext4 support).
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