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canuckkat

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 44

Acer Aspire V7-482pg-6662 install issues

I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_Media to dd the archlinux-2013.12.01-dual.iso image to my 512MB usb stick. Not sure if it's big enough or not so I might have to fix that.

At first I got a black screen after it booted but adding nomodeset fixed things.

Right now I'm suck on this error:

:: Mounting '/dev/loop0' to '/run/archiso/sfs/root-image'
Buffer I/O error on device loop0, logical block 57401 etc.
SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0xe039bc7
SQUASHFS error: unable to read id index table
mount: /dev/loop0: can't read superblock
ERROR: Failed to mount '/dev/loop0'
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

Last edited by canuckkat (2014-02-17 01:42:23)

mrinx

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From: Richmond, VA

Registered: 2013-08-01

Posts: 87

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Re: Acer Aspire V7-482pg-6662 install issues

I think your usb stick wasn't big enough, Arch Linux download page says, that the image has 522 MB. It would also explain that squashfs error. Try to use bigger stick.

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canuckkat

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 44

Re: Acer Aspire V7-482pg-6662 install issues

Some more notes (mainly for me).

I couldn't figure out how to get stuff to work with my custom usb (which I built with archlive), so I disabled UEFI and managed to install Arch that way. The problem is that now I can't boot into Windows 8. (hd0,4) doesn't seem to be working although /dev/sda4 is the right C:\ partition.

The next problem was not being to get xserver working. I had installed all the proper packages as per the wiki. After some googling, I found that if I uncommented

BusID "PCI:01:00:0"

from

/etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia

.

Next step is to install gummiboot so that I have a UEFI boot manager again.

Note: For some reason wifi is unreliable for me, so install via wired connection!

Edit #1: So my EFI issues.

I needed to

modprobe efivarfs

but everything kept telling me

modprobe efivars

(note the missing f). But that doesn't help me issue with the missing

/sys/firmware/efi/efivars

although that's most likely cuz I had to boot in legacy mode instead of UEFI?

Last edited by canuckkat (2014-02-17 04:02:07)