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Centaro

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Registered: 2022-07-20

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Intramfs unpacking failed

Hello everyone!

I am trying to install Arch and I am getting a "intramfs unpacking failed" error that does not allow me to boot into the live environment.

*The image on the usb is sound. I have tried it on virtual machines.
*The computer is also sound. I can boot other OS's and live environments.
*I have an ASUS mother board. Secure boot is "disabled". I have deleted the secure boot keys.

The problem is that my input methods stop working when the error pops up. No keyboard, no mouse.

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Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2022-07-20 22:28:17)

frostschutz

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Registered: 2013-11-15

Posts: 1,511

Re: Intramfs unpacking failed

Can you verify the image with cmp? cmp /dev/usbstick file.iso should say EOF on file.iso. If so then the usb stick should be correct, provided the file.iso has the correct checksum too.

You can install arch from another Linux (live environment) if for some reason the official images don't work for you. But it's still a very strange issue... run a memtest, just in case.

If you are familiar with virtual machines, you can also boot the image in a virtual machine, and pass through the target drive in raw format. Install from within virtual environment, reboot on bare metal. However the hardware will be different so initcpio/autodetect might not include the required modules, you may have to boot using the fallback image or re-run mkinitcpio from a chroot.

Centaro

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Registered: 2022-07-20

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Re: Intramfs unpacking failed

cmp /dev/sdb1 file.iso says that they differ at some point. I made a new one and it works. It is strange, how quickly it got corrupted, because it worked on the same day.

Thank you anyways! ) <3

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Intramfs unpacking failed

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).