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AVFritze

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Registered: 2016-04-20

Posts: 24

No Boot from ISO Image

Hi,

I'm totally new to Arch. I downloaded the last ISO, installed it on a USB drive and a DVD. In both cases booting is not possible.  I made a screen shot to have all error messages available for your help.

http://s31.postimg.org/jlo708uxn/IMG_20 … 164939.jpg

Thank you very much in advanced!

Mod note: Converted img to url. Please read the forum etiquette and don't embed large images in your posts. -- WorMzy

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-04-20 20:07:37)

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,646

Re: No Boot from ISO Image

Welcome to Arch. Your image is much too large. Please edit your post to use a link or a thumbnail with a link to the full image.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

How did you create the USB and DVD? Are you using the Beginners' Guide?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … lling_Arch
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide

There are a number of posts here with users reporting similar errors using Unetbootin and Brasero.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2016-04-20 19:55:30)

AVFritze

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Registered: 2016-04-20

Posts: 24

Re: No Boot from ISO Image

First, thanks for your quick response!

How can I change the size of the picture? I Used the image tag. So it is actually just a link.

Well as you wrote already I used UNetbootin and Brasero to create the USB and DVD? And I did not use the Beginners' Guide? Now I went through the installation guide and got it running until the automatic root login. So now I have to read the beginners guide.

Coming back soon :-)

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: No Boot from ISO Image

If your machine can boot from usb then try booting from usb. In the image you show there are errors when trying to access your cd/dvd drive so it can be a bad burn, a failing drive, bad media or any combination of them.

Refer to the wiki[1] on how to prepare your usb boot media.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_media

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agumonkey

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Registered: 2013-09-20

Posts: 25

Re: No Boot from ISO Image

I use to have a usb key with grub2 installed on it, and a partition full of .iso. See this https://gist.github.com/agumonkey/9e8f5 … b258144f48

To use another iso, adjust ISO Filename, UUID and LABEL.

happysaph98

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From: Under your bed

Registered: 2016-05-06

Posts: 4

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Re: No Boot from ISO Image

Unetbootin doesn't play nice with Arch, because the image looks for a drive label, and Unetbootin doesn't assign one. Instead, open up a terminal use dd. It should look something like:

$ dd if=/path/to/arch.iso of=/path/to/physical/usb/drive bs=4m

There's another utility called dcfldd, which is similar to dd, but includes a nifty little progress bar.

Last edited by happysaph98 (2016-05-06 23:34:57)

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Manfred

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Registered: 2016-05-07

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Re: No Boot from ISO Image

Probably the usb label name is not ARCH_201604