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#1 2013-10-31 21:57:31

csanyipal
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Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

Hi,

I just bought my new laptop Acer Aspire v3-571-33114G50MaliMFG and want to install on it Arch Linux.

It came with Linpus operating system, but now it's gone because I tried to install Arch Linux once or twice.

My installations was unsuccessful.

I was following the steps here:
Beginners' Guide

The steps that I did was:
By using an USB Stick I can boot the Arch Linux Live and I choosed Boot Arch Linux (i686), however, when I choosed Boot Arch Linux (x86_64) the installation was unsuccessful too.
# loadkeys hu
# setfont Lat2-Terminus16
# nano /etc/locale.gen

hu_HU.UTF-8 UTF-8

# locale-gen
# export hu_HU.UTF-8

# ping -c 3 www.google.com

It was successfull, I canr reach the Internet.

Now the disk partitioning.
I tried fdisk, cfdisk, gdisk for this job and create partitions on my /dev/sda:
/dev/sda1 Linux 30GB
/dev/sda2 swap 2GB
/dev/sda3 Linux the rest of the disk

Then:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

# mkswap /dev/sda2
# swapon /dev/sda2

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

# mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home


Selected a mirror..

# pacstrap -i /mnt base

# genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
# nano /mnt/etc/fstab

# arch-chroot /mnt

# nano /etc/locale.gen

hu_HU.UTF-8 UTF-8

# locale-gen

# echo LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
# export LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8

# loadkeys hu
# setfont Lat2-Terminus16

# nano /etc/vconsole.conf

KEYMAP=hu
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16


# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Budapest /etc/localtime

# hwclock --systohc --utc

# systemctl enable dhcpcd.service

Did set the root password.

# pacman -S syslinux
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

# nano /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg

In this file I set
APPEND root=/dev/sda1 rw

and for the fallback entry too.


# exit
# umount -R /mnt
# reboot

I remove the USB Stick quickly.

Now the Laptop hangs forever, and I can't to do anything.

What am I missing?

Regards, Pal

Last edited by csanyipal (2013-11-01 05:23:17)

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#2 2013-10-31 22:08:25

karol
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

What is printed in the console after the boot?

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#3 2013-11-01 05:22:37

csanyipal
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

karol wrote:

What is printed in the console after the boot?

Nothing, I can see only a cursor in the upper left corner of the empty screen.

I forgot to mention one message that I get at installation when did run the command:
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Syslinux BIOS install successful
FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable on /dev/sda1

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#4 2013-11-01 13:07:28

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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

csanyipal wrote:

I forgot to mention one message that I get at installation when did run the command:
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Syslinux BIOS install successful
FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable on /dev/sda1

That is very likely the cause of your problem.

try booting with the install usb stick again, then use cfdisk to manually set sda1 as bootable.

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#5 2013-11-01 17:59:34

csanyipal
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

Lone_Wolf wrote:
csanyipal wrote:

I forgot to mention one message that I get at installation when did run the command:
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Syslinux BIOS install successful
FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable on /dev/sda1

That is very likely the cause of your problem.

try booting with the install usb stick again, then use cfdisk to manually set sda1 as bootable.

I did so but after reboot I get again only a blank screen with a blinking cursor at upper left corner.

Now I red the Partitioning

and did the following in 'gdisk /dev/sda'
created a new empty GUID partition table with the 'o' command
created a new /boot partition ( 300 MiB ) and enabled Legacy BIOS Bootable partition attribute for that partition
created a new root partition ( 30 GiB )
created a new swap partition ( 820 MiB )
created a new home partition ( 435 GiB )
wrote the partition table to the disk.

Now I'm going to install the base Arch system. I think that that this time it should be successfull.

Last edited by csanyipal (2013-11-01 19:59:07)

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#6 2013-11-01 20:58:59

csanyipal
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Registered: 2013-10-31
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

csanyipal wrote:
Lone_Wolf wrote:
csanyipal wrote:

I forgot to mention one message that I get at installation when did run the command:
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m

Syslinux BIOS install successful
FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable on /dev/sda1

That is very likely the cause of your problem.

try booting with the install usb stick again, then use cfdisk to manually set sda1 as bootable.

I did so but after reboot I get again only a blank screen with a blinking cursor at upper left corner.

Now I red the Partitioning

and did the following in 'gdisk /dev/sda'
created a new empty GUID partition table with the 'o' command
created a new /boot partition ( 300 MiB ) and enabled Legacy BIOS Bootable partition attribute for that partition
created a new root partition ( 30 GiB )
created a new swap partition ( 820 MiB )
created a new home partition ( 435 GiB )
wrote the partition table to the disk.

Now I'm going to install the base Arch system. I think that that this time it should be successfull.

I installed the base system and syslinux and again, after I did run the command '# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m'

I get again the message:
Syslinux BIOS install successful
FAILED to set attribute Legacy BIOS Bootable on /dev/sda1

However, I set this attribute to /dev/sda1 by using gdisk.

After reboot I get the following on the screen:

           1.
Select CD-ROM Boot Type : and here a cursor blinking.

From here I can't go anywhere.

What am I missing?

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#7 2013-11-02 04:34:08

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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

Are you sure you set the attribute correctly? In gdisk you need to go into the expert menu, select a for the attribute option, choose the partition number and then select 2.

If you created the partition with type code EF02 instead, that isn't what you want.

Post the output of gdisk -l and your syslinux config.

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#8 2013-11-02 07:33:29

csanyipal
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

cfr wrote:

Are you sure you set the attribute correctly? In gdisk you need to go into the expert menu, select a for the attribute option, choose the partition number and then select 2.

If you created the partition with type code EF02 instead, that isn't what you want.

Post the output of gdisk -l and your syslinux config.

I'm sure I set the attribute correctly. I did it exactly as you mentioned abowe: in expert mode (x) I select (a) for the attribute option, choose the partition number (1) and then select legacy BIOS bootable (2).

I created the partition with type code 8300.

The output of 'gdisk -l /dev/sda' is:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): a large number here
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)  End (sector)  Size             Code    Name
     1              2048              616447    300.0 MiB     8300    boot
     2          616448          63531007    30.0 GiB       8300     root
     3      63531008          65210367    820.0 MiB     8200    swap
     4      65210368        976773134    434.7 GiB     8300    home

My /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg is:

DEFAULT arch
PROPMT 0
TIMEOUT 50

UI menu.c32

MENU TITLE Arch Linux
Here are the MENU COLORs lines

# boot sections follow

LABEL arch
     MENU LABEL Arch Linux
     LINUX  ../vmlinuz-linux
     APPEND root=/dev/sda2 rw
INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

LABEL archfallback
     MENU LABEL Arch Linux Fallback
     LINUX  ../vmlinuz-linux
     APPEND root=/dev/sda2 rw
INITRD ../initramfs-linux-fallback.img

LABEL  hdt
   MENU LABEL HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
   COM32  hdt.c32

LABEL  reboot
   MENU LABEL Reboot
   COM32  reboot.c32

LABEL  powreoff
   MENU LABEL Poweroff
   COM32  poweroff.c32

(END)

Last edited by csanyipal (2013-11-02 07:41:27)

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#9 2013-11-02 07:39:06

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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

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#10 2013-11-02 12:57:39

csanyipal
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Re: Unsuccessful installation on Acer Aspire v3-571

I solve the installation problem by installing grub, and by following this guides:
Choosing_between_GPT_and_MBR
GRUB
Regards, from Pal

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