Many thanks to those who helped me with this issue!
thea
]]>thanks again,
t.
]]>I suspect the iso is bad. I have been trying to confirm this myself, but I can't even mount the thing to check it out. Have you tried other isos?
Alternately, you can use the old CD and do a netinstall.
]]>The CD is bootable. That is: when I put the CD into its tray and turn on the computer, first the ASUS logo appears, then a blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner, and then a one-line message about the installation media (I think, doesn't show for long), and then the Arch Linux installation menu, consisting of the following options:
- boot Arch Linux
- boot existing OS
- run Memtest86
- hardware info
- reboot
- power off
If I select 'Boot Arch Linux', I immediately get the two loading messages as indicated in my initial posting. The error message occurs after the second loading fails (stops after about 13 dots)
So that's what i mean by 'boots'. The OS does not boot, the disk only gets me as far as the installation menu.
I have an older installation CD (self-burned) which works, and the contents of which look rather different than the CD in question (from June this year). The only problem with it is that I can't use my network card after installing it (see an earlier posting by me today).
BTW I have just installed Ubuntu on the laptop -- far from ideal as I really want to continue to use Arch on that machine. But it does indicate that something is wrong with the Arch installation process -- could well be that I am not doing something correctly, but it would be great to find out what.
thanks for any help!
t.
]]>You first said you got that error while trying to boot, now you say you got to an installation menu. Can you give a better overview of what you have done and at what stage this error appeared?
I can't help but suspect there is a grub menu.lst pointing to the disk img rather than an initramfs img that is accounting for the error you originally quoted.
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]]>This was the process:
1. Copied archlinux-2012.06.05_04-00-01-core-i686.iso from http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/
2. Burned this onto a CD
3. Booted my laptop on the CD
I got what appeared to be a normal Arch Linux installation menu.
thea
]]>It should not be trying to load the archiso.img, it should just be loading an initramfs.img.
Are you booting from usb, or how? How did you make the bootable media?
]]>The problem is the same: after loading boot/i686/vmlinuz, the following error message appears while loading boot/i686/archiso.img:
Not enough memory to load specified image.
I have about 4 Gb RAM in my laptop, memory check showed no errors.
Is there some way I can edit the load command to avoid this, or is there some other work around?
Thanks,
Thea
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