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Punkie

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Registered: 2009-08-13

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[SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

rebooting the machine from the live CD 2009.08 ftp, it serves me the grub commandline.

grub >

I am assuming that is the intended behaviour. But then what? I cant find what to do next. I figured i should tell him to boot from the CD but how? if i have to set the boot , like

root (hdx,x)

then what should i use to aim it at the CD?
Then for loading a kernel, what is the correct path? Something along the lines of

find /vmlinuz

doesnt return any hits.

Last edited by Punkie (2009-08-15 21:20:18)

Ghost1227

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

This is not the intended behavior... You might want to verify that the CD burned/downloaded correctly.

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

is your bios set to boot from cd? you shouldnt see grub at all.

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Punkie

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

It was booted from CD. Many other live CD distros boot just fine.
The md5 is correct and i burned 2 CD's. They behave identical. I am getting head nor tail of the grub commands.

btw trying to run the iso as a virtual machine in virtualbox yields a crash. As in this topic http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77493

perbh

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Where did you put grub? (mbr?)
Do you have a seperate /boot partition ?
What is the content of /boot/grub ? (ok, for this last question you need a live cd to answer!)

It's kinda difficult to offer any advice when you don't tell us your partitions or where you installed grub ... ;-(

lilsirecho

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Perhaps you are expecting a Live CD such as puppy linux?

The download of arch Live CD is an install CD for the OS.

Or am I misinterpreting your post?

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Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Try the isolinux image. Alsa if you have a sata optical drive, then try switching the mode on the sata controller to ide/legacy instead of ahci. (Some bioses also have a linux compability flag for ahci, which may help)

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Punkie

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Where did you put grub? (mbr?)
Do you have a seperate /boot partition ?
What is the content of /boot/grub ? (ok, for this last question you need a live cd to answer!)

It's kinda difficult to offer any advice when you don't tell us your partitions or where you installed grub ... ;-(

What the partitions on my HD are and whether or not I use grub to boot from HD does not concern this problem.
It is about the arch CD only: if I  boot from the CD, grub cmd line is loaded. When i do boot from the iso via virtualbox, i do get the grub menu.

Perhaps you are expecting a Live CD such as puppy linux?

The download of arch Live CD is an install CD for the OS.

Or am I misinterpreting your post?

I wasnt expecting anything. It just did things i dont understand and i dont know how to continue.

Try the isolinux image.

You mean dl this archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.iso?

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Try the isolinux image.

You mean dl this archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-i686.iso?

No. I mean the isolinux image.

You can find it on the "Download" page, and on your favourite mirror.

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Punkie

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto boot the liveCD?

Tried the isolinux flavor and it worked
thnx!