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grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

Hey Everyone,
Well, this time around I am having trouble installing Arch x64 on my desktop.  It get to the boot screen and I select the default setting to load the CD and it hit the next screen looking like the following and stays there for hours:

               Booting 'Boot Arch Linux Live CD'

               kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 lang=en locale=en_US.UTF-8 atchisolabel=ARCHISO_KE1AECIE ramdisk_size=75%
                  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3600, size=0x1c4980

What can I do to try to get this to continue so I can install?

My system specs (in detail, including useless ones) are:
     AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
     8 GB GSkill DDR2-1066 (4x2GB)
     Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 512MB PCI Express 2.0 x16
     SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X SATA II 8-port controller
     ASRock AOD790GX/128M AM2+/AM2 ATX Motherboard
          North Bridge: AMD 790GX
          South Bridge: AMD SB750
          Sound: Realtek ALC890
          Graphics: Radeon HD 3300
          NIC: Realtek 8111C
     AVerMedia AVerTV Combo PCIe MCE ATSC/NTSC/QAM Tuner Card
     Athena Power AP-RRP4ATX65 24Pin 658W + 658W mini redundant Power Supply
     2 WD Raptor 74 GB RAID 1
     2 WD Raptor 36 GB RAID 1 (Where I want intall Arch)
     5 Seagate 1.5 TB
     Seagate 1 TB
     Seagate 750 GB
     Seagate 500 GB
     2 SATA DVD Burners

Last edited by grantd (2009-11-07 04:55:47)

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

How often have you tried it? I sometimes get that when booting off a USB stick or a CD, and all I can do is hard reset, wait a minute and try again. Most of the time that works.

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grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

I have tried it dozens of times.  I even redownloaded the CD even though I had used my currently burned one with my laptop.  With the help of a friend, we updated the CD to the latest kernel and still had no success.

Any other ideas?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

You could try one of the -isolinux or archboot ISOs:
- http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.arc … so/latest/
- http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.arc … ot/latest/

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grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

Okay, now I got it to install with the iso-linux disk, but now I can't get it to boot for the same reason above.  The screen shows the following:

root     (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/byuuid/d8066037-87c7-4322-82d4-f1abdedaa385 ro
   [Linux-bxImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x1d87a0]

Any ideas on what to do from here?

grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

I think my issue is with GRUB, but I don't know what else to do.

Any help, please.

grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

Okay, this makes no sense to me, but I fixed it.  For some reason, GRUB will not load on my system.  So I reinstalled, but this time made a small (32 MB) FAT16 partition at the beginning of the disk and partition table and installed GRUB4DOS on the drive.  Now it boots fine with no issues at all.  Don't understand it, and if anyone can come up with a reason why, I would love to know, but it is time to mark this as solved since the system boots now.

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

Maybe you installed grub into the boot sector of your active (= bootable) partition instead of into the MBR of your first hard disk.

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grantd

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Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fails loading kernel for first boot (previously install)?

That is not it, it would load the GRUB menu and I could boot my Windows bootloader from it, just not linux.  It would attempt it, but end up as:

root     (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/byuuid/d8066037-87c7-4322-82d4-f1abdedaa385 ro
   [Linux-bxImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x1d87a0]

Put the same line in GRUB4DOS, it works.

Last edited by grantd (2009-11-10 04:33:52)