[SOLVED] Beginner trying to boot to LiveCD to no avail

chrispcall · 2012-03-24 17:05:05

I have searched, looked in the beginner wiki and FAQs and can not find an answer to this problem:

I have Ubuntu installed and when I try to boot to the i686 live CD for Arch, it will not boot. I am trying to format the machine and install arch from scratch using the beginner install guide. There is a small pause (2 seconds) where you hear the CD spinning and then it immediately jumps into Grub with just my installed Ubuntu distro available to select.

While searching, I found a ton of problems (and noticed in the beginner install guide) that a lot of users experience freezing or blank screens during boot of the CD. I do not have that problem. It just waits a few seconds (while on a blank screen) and then jumps to Grub. It never freezes and stays on a blank screen.

I know the disc is good (burned two of them from my Mac and then burned a Linux Mint CD all on the slowest speed with the same CD media) and Linux Mint will boot fine from CD (I have the CD drive as my first boot device and it is an internal drive).

Not sure what else to try. Any suggestions?

Thank you all so much in advance for your help.
Chris

(P.S. nice touch on the "captcha" checksum to be able to register on these forums.)

Last edited by chrispcall (2012-03-25 01:27:45)

1archgamenon2 · 2012-03-24 17:40:29

Any suggestions?

better try this one: http://archbang.org/

Moderator warning: That link is to a non-Arch Linux site.

Last edited by ewaller (2012-03-24 19:57:45)

hadrons123 · 2012-03-24 17:53:24

Did you try this install Disc on other computers?
How old is this CD drive?

chrispcall · 2012-03-24 18:25:12

hadrons123 wrote:

Did you try this install Disc on other computers?
How old is this CD drive?

I will try another PC when I get home. Have not tried that yet because mint live cd works fine.

The drive is 5 years old. It's the stock drive on my HP NC6320 laptop. Thanks for your helpful reply.

DSpider · 2012-03-24 18:48:26

Try another medium then. For instance, USB sticks are dirt cheap now. You can find 4 GB for as little as 5 €. Personally I think I haven't burned a disc since 2007 or so.

Welcome to the forums.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-03-24 23:33:35)

ewaller · 2012-03-24 19:56:42

Moderator comment:

1archgamenon2 wrote:

Any suggestions?
better try this one: http://archbang.org/

Archgameron2,
I presume that anyone one this site is trying to install Arch Linux, not a different Linux Installation. Yes, we know that you are an Archbang user, that is fine. Do not try to deceive members of this site into thinking that Arch Linux == Archbang.

You have been told repetitively that these are not the Archbang forums. If you continue, the moderators will suspend your account.

Last edited by ewaller (2012-03-24 22:44:53)

chrispcall · 2012-03-24 22:18:34

I figured it out (kinda).

I tried the CD on another PC and id did not work. So I did the USB method and it is working fine. Thanks to everyone for their help.

Now on to the actual install process...

hadrons123 · 2012-03-25 01:21:43

mark this thread as solved, by editing your first post.

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[SOLVED] Beginner trying to boot to LiveCD to no avail

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