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Greenstuff

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-30

Posts: 64

live CD won't boot

hi,
I downloaded and burned the core 02.2009 ISO from the site. I then tried to boot into it, but when Grub shows up I choose "boot live CD" then I see it starts to boot but then it starts saying "Buffer I/O error, logical block" and it just repeats and and won't give me a command line. How do I resolve this? My computer is partitioned like this:
sda1: Dell utils
sda2: windows XP
sda3: ext3
sda4: swap

GerBra

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From: Bingen/Germany

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 215

Re: live CD won't boot

Have you checked the md5sum of the downloaded *.iso file and the burned CD. Maybe a download and/or a burning error.
The IO error must come from the CD/DVD-Reader access, only this drive is used during the boot process.

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: live CD won't boot

On some systems grub can't boot from cd. You might try iso with isolinux bootloader.

djszapi

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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 1,439

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Re: live CD won't boot

I've experienced such a failure when i wanted to boot without any hard disk, just from CD in the very early days )

You can install archlinux from hard disk, you need for a cd-sized extended partition e.g. and cdburn.

But in these i think install from usb the best general solution:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _USB_stick

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