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Rewired87

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 30

Installer CD Ejects itself

Long story short, I'm trying to refurbish and old PC that used to have Windows XP on it. It is unable to boot from a USB drive, and an old CD drive is all I'm able to put into it. It worked the first few times I booted it up, but now the CD keeps ejecting itself when trying to boot into the installer (because I had other problems with the booted Arch system and reinstalled from scratch). All I need to do is install grub, but it is consistently doing this now. It ejects the CD and then boots me into a rootfs prompt that says "job handling failed", and won't let me use chroot or arch-chroot.

Anyone know how to fix this?
Other details: Using an installer iso from last November, since the current one is too big for a CD.

Last edited by Rewired87 (2016-07-04 20:58:24)

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paulkerry

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: Installer CD Ejects itself

Years ago, I used to use the PLOP boot manager to let me boot from usb on a machine that doesn't natively support usb booting, so you could perhaps try that?

https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html

Download the zip file and within it, there is an iso file which you can write to cd. When you subsequently boot from that cd, you can select usb from the list.

Cheers Paul.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,349

Re: Installer CD Ejects itself

Another tangential suggestion.  Does it support PXE boot?

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