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anddy

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 3

LiveCD crashing boot

Hello!
I'm trying to boot from a flash drive. The download starts normally. But after the system has booted, my computer goes into an emergency reboot.
How can I find out the reason for such a reboot?
I have tried other distributions (Gentoo, Ubuntu), no problems with them.
The problem is only with Arch Linux.
I have tried different distribution versions. Did not help.
I tried another flash drive - the problem persists.
Tried installing on another computer from this flash drive - everything is fine.

How to understand the reason for the reboot on this computer?

Intel Core i5-4670K
Asus Z87-K
Kingston HyperX KHX1866C10D3/4G x 4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950
Creative CA20K1 X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity Audio Processor
Samsung SSD 860 PRO 256GB

c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 395

Re: LiveCD crashing boot

Not all "flash" applications are equal. I would consider flashing the USB key using 'dd.' It rarely fails.  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_fl … _utilities

Last edited by c00ter (2023-06-09 04:40:42)

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anddy

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 3

Re: LiveCD crashing boot

Hello!
I haven't been able to solve this problem yet.
I tried to burn the media in different ways. I even used Ventoy. The system boots, and still the system crashes, and at the same time at an arbitrary moment.
I think it's because of the hardware.
Is it possible to somehow see a dump of what is happening?
It is very surprising that this happens on ArchLinux. At the moment I installed Fedora. And there were no problems at all...
By the way, I tried Manjaro. It is based on ArchLinux. And it crashes just the same...

Last edited by anddy (2023-06-11 12:48:53)

diedbydisgust

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Registered: 2023-06-17

Posts: 3

Re: LiveCD crashing boot

same here, ASUS board, i7-8700.
arch ISO crash while booting, rootfs is loaded then a lot of green [ok]message then crash, i'm not able to see error/fail message, hardware related i guess.

need a way to retain ISO boot messages.

By the way, I tried Manjaro. It is based on ArchLinux. And it crashes just the same...

tested on outdated manjaro 21.0 linux 5.10 ISO. no crash.

anddy

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Registered: 2023-06-08

Posts: 3

Re: LiveCD crashing boot

I found out the reason! I had a small CPU overclock set up. I reset the BIOS settings and everything worked right away.

diedbydisgust

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Registered: 2023-06-17

Posts: 3

Re: LiveCD crashing boot

I found out the reason! I had a small CPU overclock set up. I reset the BIOS settings and everything worked right away.

i turned off all overclocking features from BIOS, so finally could boot arch installation. but now the installed arch is crashing during kernel upgrades, during mkinitcpio i suspect. i believe related issue.