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glethro

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Registered: 2012-06-15

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

Booting Arch netinstall and core from a USB fails on waht appears to be "booting the kernel"

After that the screen is flood with what looks like a dump.
The last 5 lines are something like (i quickly copied them down) and each line is preceded by a bunch of numbers:

do_one_initcall +0x35/0x170
? quick_tc86c001_idet +0x22/0x22
kernel_init +0xae/0x13a
? start_kernel +0x35d/0x35d
kernel_thread_helper +0x6/0x10

_ *blinking*

It hangs there and doesn't go away until I reset the machine

iso was torrented but I did a md5 check anyway and then created it using Universal USB installer. It works fine on my laptop.

Hardware
Mother board: Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/21/12 15:12:36 Ver: 04.06.05
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~5.9GHz
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NIC:Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)

Last edited by glethro (2012-06-17 03:23:54)

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

You did not mention anything about your hardware. IF your hardware is new, try archboot.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archboot

https://downloads.archlinux.de/iso/archboot/2012.04

falconindy

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Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

Didn't mention how the USB was created, either.

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glethro

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Registered: 2012-06-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

I have edited the post with the required information

iso was torrented but I did a md5 check anyway and then created it using Universal USB installer. It works fine on my laptop.

Hardware
Mother board: Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/21/12 15:12:36 Ver: 04.06.05
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~5.9GHz
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
NIC:Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

That looks like a kernel panic.

The 2011.08.19 iso comes with an older kernel (3.0.3). Try something a little more recent, like the "daily" builds: http://www.archlinux.org/download/

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glethro

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Registered: 2012-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

2012.06.04_04-00-01 seem's to be working.

oliparcol

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From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

Did it work ? I have the same motherboard but I can't prepare my HD. See this post for more info.

Thanks !

glethro

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Registered: 2012-06-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

@oliparcol Nope. I've got the same partitioning problems as you. I first tried manually partitioning from the installer but that kept failing. So I moved some stuff around and tried the automatic install option but that failed as well. So I booted up gparted live and partitioned the drive myself then booted the Arch install and tried selecting the mount points. I get the same double listing as you and none of the changes I make seem to stick.

I guess I'll try this archbot thing..

oliparcol

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From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

yeah me too

glethro

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Registered: 2012-06-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

I will leave this as solved as the kernel panic is no longer happening.. But archbot doesn't seem to work either. When in the configure step it shows a fstab file with an entry only for tmp. I booted this and it created the entire file system as read only. I reinstalled and used my own fstab file and was still left with a read-only system.

hadrons123

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From: chennai

Registered: 2011-10-07

Posts: 1,249

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

Edit:
Never mind. Didnt understand your post the first time I read.

Last edited by hadrons123 (2012-06-18 01:55:59)

oliparcol

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From: Paris

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 38

Re: [SOLVED] Live USB fail to boot

I will leave this as solved as the kernel panic is no longer happening.. But archbot doesn't seem to work either. When in the configure step it shows a fstab file with an entry only for tmp. I booted this and it created the entire file system as read only. I reinstalled and used my own fstab file and was still left with a read-only system.

I successfully installed archlinux using archboot... concerning your fstab issue, I just haven't look this file in the configure step and everything worked fine... did you try editing this file manually without using the archboot installer ?