Arch Linux

bisarch

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Registered: 2020-04-07

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Arch Linux Installation on laptop hangs indefinitely

I recently purchased a new laptop. While the laptop came pre-installed with Windows 11, I am now attempting to install Arch Linux on it. However, when I try to boot from the live USB drive, the process hangs at "copying rootfs image to RAM," typically at 3 or 4 percent completion. I attempted to boot with the parameter

copytoram=n

but it hangs at the message

Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Update: I was able to boot this laptop with an Ubuntu live USB but Arch Linux still doesn't boot.

Update 2: Booting from the GRUB shell even without the copytoram=n parameter hangs  at "Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label". Here are the commands I used.

linux /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux
initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/initramfs.img
boot

Last edited by bisarch (2024-03-08 02:08:01)