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Hello,
I am running a samsung n250 with 1gb RAM and 250gb hard drive.I am currently running linux mint but am interested in running arch linux on my Samsung n250 mainly because of its renound package manager.I installed and extracted the torrent file into my desktop and then burned it onto a cd.Because my poor little samsung netbook does not have a cd drive I used an external one to attempt to boot up arch linux.I remembered to change the BIOS priorities and when I turned on my netbook I was simply met with linux mint's boot up splash screen- indicating that my samsung netbook was refusing to boot up arch linux.
I tried using an sd card but my BIOS did not have any options to change that priority so I presume my netbook is incompatible with sd card boot up.
I am a complete newbie to arch linux and hope it to be my last distro hop (I have tried Zorin os 6, Ubuntu and Linux mint).
Thank you for any help.
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Why don't you boot from a pendrive?
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I was considering booting my computer from a USB but my BIOS boot priorities did not seem to have any options in the term of USB boot priorities.
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For whatever it is worth, I had no problems booting from a USB flash drive (pendrive) on Samsung N150. And MSI Wind U100.
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I'll try that.
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I tried installing it through a pendrive using a image burner I found online and my BIOS detected it.Then I changed the priorities accordingly and my computer was greeted with the message "could not find isolinux.bin" for a fraction of second and then it turned black(unfortunately persuading me that it was 'configuring' or something and making me wait 5 minutes for any response).
Again, thank you.
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It seems your image wasn't written properly. Perhaps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_Media can help.
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Hmm... That migth be correct.I will add that I used "image writer" which I installed on linux mint and it stated that the installation has worked correctly.
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Hello again,
I followed the instructions on the wiki page (this time using "/dev/sdx" instead of using "/dev/sdc") but found the same error.
If it is any consolation the error is actually "isolinux.bin missing or script".
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x is meant to denote any letter (as instructions cannot know what letter your device uses).
How did you install Linux Mint? You can install Arch from any Linux (live or not) - you could even install it from Linux Mint, provided you don't plan to do anything to its root partition.
Are you indeed using BIOS and not UEFI?
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I am relatively sure that I am using BIOS.
I did actually realise about the "sdx" thing and tried "sdb".The problem is now that my netbook will refuse to detect my (faulty) pendrive.I am also quite sure that I can fix the "isolinux.bin missing or corrupt"(I now believe it to be "corrupt " rather than "script") using the link here: http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?pid=15015.My problem is now that my netbook will not mount my (faulty) pendrive so I do not know which /dev/? to install arch linux on.
Thank you (again)
Last edited by maclachlanwill (2013-05-28 15:07:11)
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As a side note, on windows I used Win32DiskImager and managed to get as far as "Disk error: Press any key to restart.".
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If your pendrive is physically working, you should see in dmesg what letter it gets upon inserting.
Also have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107241
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Don't use an image burner like unetbootin to write the image to a flash drive, the arch iso comes with a boot loader and it best to write it directly to the flash drive using
dd if=Archiso.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M of course replacing Archiso with the path to the image and sdX with your pendrive's drive letter (don't include partition number). there is no reason that should go wrong. just be sure you use the proper drive letter such as sdb as you do not want to overwrite the wrong disk.
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