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mugen

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Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 51

[SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

i can see the grub menu after that wen i select arch , screen goes blank .I have tried gettin into single user mode thro GRUB it also doesnt work.Wen i select arch fallback it goes upto initrd & hangs.I tried using Ubuntu live cd it gives some wierd msg saying uncompressing linux & hangs .. Pl help...thanks in advance

Last edited by mugen (2008-06-28 19:41:06)

Doc Angelo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-11-28

Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

If a live cd (thats is known to work before) doesnt work, then something is wrong with your hardware, i'd say.

mugen

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Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

is there any way to surely know if its a hardware prob or not ?... I think u r right but just to confirm ....

Doc Angelo

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-11-28

Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

Well, did you change some of your hardware lately? Did unplugg something?

japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

Run memtest on the system.

Isomorphism

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 41

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

Hello mugen,

Thanks for telling my problem and getting help. I realised that there should be something wrong with my ram, since even a live cd hangs while uncompressing the kernel. So I figured that the problem is either due to the RAM or the RAM slot. Just to test I ran the memtest and the process hanged halfway through.This confirmed my suspicions. So I changed the RAM slot and everything works fine. In case this didnt work I would have tried changing the RAM.

Thanks man,
Spai

P.S:I am posting what I did here, so that it will be helpful to others who face the same problem

Last edited by Isomorphism (2008-06-28 15:23:48)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: [SOLVED]arch doesnt boot

Please mark this thread as solved (edit the first post).