Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

Mr.Macdonald · 2008-10-09 01:41:20

I currently have Ubuntu installed and after reading I feel that I could use some fast Linux. So I downloaded an ISO and checked its md5sum. I wrote it to disk using Ubuntu's "right click on ISO and click write to disk" utility to write the ISO to the disk. Now I tried to boot it and it failed.

My system is the Via Artigo with an external (usb) LaCie CD/DVD drive. I pressed ESC and F12 upon boot to select the bootable media. On the list there was CD-ROM and USB-CD-ROM. each time I choose either one the system starts booting the hard drive without and recognition of the CD.

Do i need to make the CD bootable "chmod +boot /dev/cdrom";)

Now I won't do anything drastic but what if I deleted my /boot directory, would that force the system to boot the CD

alanhaggai · 2008-10-09 11:27:37

Mr.Macdonald wrote:

Now I won't do anything drastic but what if I deleted my /boot directory, would that force the system to boot the CD

You should not delete the /boot directory. That will not solve your problem. Try to reorder the existing boot entries in the BIOS. You may try the + and - key to reorder them. Reorder in such a way that the CD-ROM drive comes first.

konni · 2008-10-09 12:48:01

well if you get a boot device selection window, thats equal to setting the bios to boot from cd first.
can you boot with some other cd? ubuntu/windows?
if you can't there's still the option to install arch out of the existing ubuntu installation.
see the wiki for details: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux

scrllock · 2008-10-09 16:18:45

Open up whichever cd-burning app you have installed in ubuntu, find the Burn Disc from ISO option, and go from there. You shouldn't have to do anything extra after that, assuming the disc actually burns (make sure that simulation/fake burn is NOT checked). the Artigo should boot from USB-CDROM just fine, if you're having problems they're probably related to the actual disc itself.

Mr.Macdonald · 2008-10-09 17:31:51

I managed to get something else to happen.

I got it to try and boot the CD
the first time it started as normal and stalled
the rest of the times it goes to a GNU GRUB Command line

Factory · 2008-10-09 17:52:24

Mr.Macdonald wrote:

I managed to get something else to happen.
I got it to try and boot the CD
the first time it started as normal and stalled
the rest of the times it goes to a GNU GRUB Command line

Just from this it sounds like either your disc is bad or your drive is bad. Test it against another cd that you know works properly.

Mr.Macdonald · 2008-10-09 18:34:32

I got the CD to work on another computer. Maybe the disk doesn't support external drives?

Anyways I did the install reference to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux

After doing this install do i need to delete my old system and replace it with the new

# ls /
bin data home initrd.img.old media opt sbin tmp vmlinuz
boot dev initrd lib mnt proc srv usr vmlinuz.old
cdrom etc initrd.img lost+found newarch root sys var

# ls /newarch
bin dev home media opt root srv tmp var
boot etc lib mnt proc sbin sys usr

# rm -rf `ls / | grep -v "newarch"`

# mv /newarch/* /

# rm -rf /newarch

Last edited by Mr.Macdonald (2008-10-09 19:22:02)

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#1 2008-10-09 01:41:20

Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

#2 2008-10-09 11:27:37

Re: Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

#3 2008-10-09 12:48:01

Re: Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

#4 2008-10-09 16:18:45

Re: Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

#5 2008-10-09 17:31:51

Re: Arch CD won't boot, Other Linux installed

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