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I can easily boot into the October 1st, 2022 and January 1st, 2023 Arch ISOs on my late 2011 iMac, but the July 1st, 2024 Arch ISO does not work. After the systemd-boot screen, after clicking "Enter" (the default choice is to start the Arch live environment), the screen is fully black, and even after waiting for 10 minutes, nothing happens. Meanwhile, with the other, older ISOs, there is a blinking cursor for 5-10 seconds, before the systemd messages are printed, and the live environment is fully loaded. I do not know the cause of this, but I would like to find it out by somehow enabling some debug option in systemd-boot, but I do not know how to do that.
I wanted to install Arch with the old ISOs, but neither of them worked, because of invalid PGP signatures (pacstrap said the .tar.zst files were corrupted). I tried to do `pacman-key --init` and `pacman-key --refresh-keys`, but for some reason, they did not work. I also tried to do `pacman -Syu` after that, but it said there was too little disk space to update the live environment (since it was loaded on only 16 gigabytes of RAM).
I am either looking for a fix to the "invalid signatures" problem on the old ISOs, or a fix to the black screens on the new ISO. Thank you in advance for your help.
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I was able to fix the issue on the old ISOs by performing `pacman -S archlinux-keyring` before using pacstrap. However, I still wonder why the new ISO will not boot.
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because the hardware is too old for current configuration of the install medium - from several similar threads it seems an issue with the now standard zstd compression which has issues on intel cpus
call it whatever you want - planed obsolesence, lack of support for old hardware ... whatever ends up in your mind - but the hard truth is technology advanced quite a lot over the past 13 years and tge maintainer of arch moved along with it and changed some stuff so it requires more recent hardware to function properly
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