ISO Image not booting - GRUB cannot find cdrom

VeaaC · 2008-07-06 18:48:05

I am using the archlinux-2008.06-core ISO image in my Acer Travelmate 2350.
Instead of showing the menu GRUB drops me to the shell. It seems it cannot load the menu.lst due to not finding the cdrom.
I found a similar bug filed under: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6292
It was closed by using isolinux instead of grub.

Is this a known problem?

tigrmesh · 2008-07-06 19:13:04

Try using installer version 2008.03. It does not use grub.

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INCSlayer · 2008-07-06 19:20:28

tigrmesh wrote:

Try using installer version 2008.03. It does not use grub.

it dosent use grub?? what does it use then??

tigrmesh · 2008-07-06 19:42:53

archboot, if i recall correctly. http://projects.archlinux.org/

SyXbiT · 2008-07-10 19:03:08

i have the same problem. kinda annoying, as now i'll have to do the UUID myself
or is there a planned fix? the same disc boots up fine on my laptop.
could someone explain what the issue is exactly, and a possible workaround (with current ISO, as I'd like to understand what's failing)

Last edited by SyXbiT (2008-07-10 19:23:23)

phrakture · 2008-07-10 21:18:50

VeaaC wrote:

Instead of showing the menu GRUB drops me to the shell. It seems it cannot load the menu.lst due to not finding the cdrom.

Could you please post the exact error text? I am trying to determine if this is a grub issue or something else.

VeaaC · 2008-07-10 21:24:26

phrakture wrote:

VeaaC wrote:
Instead of showing the menu GRUB drops me to the shell. It seems it cannot load the menu.lst due to not finding the cdrom.
Could you please post the exact error text? I am trying to determine if this is a grub issue or something else.

No error text at all. I just got a blank screen and the GRUB prompt.
root (<tab> results in
Possible disks are: fd0 fd1 fd2 fd3 fd4 fd5 fd6 fd7 hd0
and neither of the fds is my cdrom.

phrakture · 2008-07-10 22:41:06

Hmmm, maybe there are some grub options were missing for your hardware - what kind of cdrom do you have?

VeaaC · 2008-07-10 23:52:38

phrakture wrote:

Hmmm, maybe there are some grub options were missing for your hardware - what kind of cdrom do you have?

According to dmesg its a "RW/DVD GCC-4243N".

SyXbiT · 2008-07-11 06:17:51

having the same problem.
here's what dmesg says about my SATA DVD drive

ata3.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62N, CL01, max UDMA/100
scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62N CL01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

mbender · 2008-07-13 07:52:20

exactly the same issue with
ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4040N, 1.02, max UDMA/33

Viski · 2008-07-20 09:03:27

Exactly the same problem with Acer Aspire 2023. Instead of giving me the menu it just drops into grub command line. My grub doesn't see any drives though, not even the hard drives. Same disc works with another computer just fine.

My drive:
ata2.00: ATAPI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ-825S, D100, max UDMA/66
scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-825S D100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5

Update:
My grub gives

Error 12: Invalid device requested

with root + <tab>

Last edited by Viski (2008-07-20 09:15:30)

Viski · 2008-07-24 09:15:42

Hmm. If I take the old pre-grub ftp install image, do I get exactly the same system, but without UUIDs or are there some other differences in the install procedure? So if I just change fstab to use UUIDs after the installation, do I get exactly the same system as with 2008.6 install disc?

tigrmesh · 2008-07-24 22:50:27

Arch is rolling release. Once you
pacman -Syu

you're up to date. It doesn't matter what ISO you use. Having said that, you will want to use 2008.03 or newer. Pacman changed considerably between 2007.08 and 2008.03.

heleos · 2008-07-24 23:16:10

I had a similar problem when I tried to reinstall once. I couldn't get the 2008.6 iso working, so I reverted back to the 2008.3, and it worked

Viski · 2008-07-25 08:11:15

tigrmesh wrote:

Arch is rolling release. Once you
pacman -Syu
you're up to date. It doesn't matter what ISO you use. Having said that, you will want to use 2008.03 or newer. Pacman changed considerably between 2007.08 and 2008.03.

Yes, I know that it is a rolling release. Still, there are some differences in the installations between the ISOs. The one significant difference that I know of is the usage of UUIDs in Overlord. I will try the 2008.3 and just stab fstab to use UUIDs myself. But what I'd like to know is if there are any other new things in Overlord that I should be prepared to repair in the old release.

st0nedpenguin · 2008-07-28 17:46:39

Not the same issue but may be related, I get this partway through the boot of the 2008.6 CD/USB images.

phrakture · 2008-07-28 19:35:20

st0nedpenguin, could you edit (hit 'e' on the grub screen) the command line and add "break=y" to it? When you get the prompt, run "echo /dev/*" and show us the results, please? Also, the tail end of the dmesg output would be useful

st0nedpenguin · 2008-07-28 23:06:58

Trying to right now but for some ungodly reason my flash drive refuses to boot anymore with the 2008.6 USB image copied on it via dd.

frodoontop · 2008-12-27 01:16:48

I've got the problem too that I'm redirected at the "grub > " prompt. When trying root (<TAB> it only shows fd0-6 and hd0. No cdrom device (while the install disc is a cdrom).

The old version of Arch Linux won't work because of the change in the mirror format. What can I do?

frodoontop · 2008-12-27 15:13:59

The latest iso that is labelled unofficial and at own risk is working here. It doesn't use grub to boot.

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