[SOLVED]Installation freezes at random places

jakubs · 2013-03-12 15:27:23

Hello,

I'm trying to install arch on UEFI board and everything seems to be fine until my laptop decides to stop working without telling what's wrong..

Installation process goes like this:
1) Create UEFI bootable USB according to wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UE … B_from_ISO
2) Don't know if it's important but at boot I've got output like this

[sdb] No caching page mode present
[sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

sdb - USB stick
3) partition my disk with GPT

sda1    EFI    512MB    /mnt/boot/efi
sda2    swap  2GB
sda3    root    20GB      /mnt
sda4    home  rest        /mnt/home

4) format partition and mount them.
5) this step depends on time when freez occures which (I think) is random. Most of the time it happens during

# pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

but once it was just before configuring bootloader so I can't really tell exact moment.

Basically I'm stuck and I've no idea how to make it work, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Laptop is Asus eeePC 1225c
If I can provide any more information please tell me, because without any error message I'm just guessing what might be importatnt.

Thanks!

jakubs

Last edited by jakubs (2013-03-15 23:40:51)

s1ln7m4s7r · 2013-03-12 22:16:36

That very vague information. It may not even be an "arch" distribution problem.

Actually it may be a computer issue! (Overheating, hard drive issue, bad ram module, etc...). Or perhaps a buggy kernel module loaded for your hardware!

???UNKNOWN???

jakubs · 2013-03-15 21:05:43

After checking temerature and running memtest86+ (no errors found) I've decided to give it a try without UEFI and menaged to install the system : )
so I guess subject can be closed.

jasonwryan · 2013-03-15 21:13:37

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#1 2013-03-12 15:27:23

[SOLVED]Installation freezes at random places

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