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scottbg1

Member

Registered: 2009-12-14

Posts: 18

Cant boot any live cd or usb

Just bought a new laptop.

Toshiba A505

I have tried to boot Arch via cd and usb, and have also tried about 4 other distros and I cant get past grub.

It seems as if communication is lost with the drive/cd when booting is initiated. It always ends with an error that it cant find whatever I am booting from (usb/cd).

The cd drive and usb ports work fine while in windows. Its just when I try to boot linux. It will see grub, but after that.....error.

Anybody ever run into this? I tried a search already but didn't find anything.

Thanks in advance.

bgalakazam

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: California, USA

Registered: 2008-09-01

Posts: 76

Re: Cant boot any live cd or usb

What error when using USB?
What error when using CD-ROM?
How did you burn CD-ROM?
How did you create USB?
What else besides Arch doesn't boot?

logan

Member

Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 1

Re: Cant boot any live cd or usb

I've been having the same problem (A505-S6033).  Booting with acpi=off and noapic gets it to boot, but it won't support the wireless (also, running a laptop without acpi seems to be a bad idea).

Ubuntu-based distros have a similar problem.  The error when using cd-rom is something along the lines of "ERROR: could not mount /dev/archiso", and then it throws you into the ramfs.
CD-ROM is burnt fine, btw.  I installed arch on my desktop from it.

A friend and I determined the problem is probably that the intel core i3/i5/i7 processors only support ACPI 4.0, which kernel 2.6.30 doesn't support(last I checked).
Is there any way to get a install CD running 2.6.32 or 2.6.33?

EDIT: I wrote the Ubuntu error down.  it's:

pnp 00:06: can't evaluate _CRS: 6ACPI Error (utevel-0243): No object was returned from [\_SB_.LNKA._STA] (node ffff88013f00ae40), AE_NOT_EXIST

pnp 00:07: can't evaluate _CRS: 6<6>pnp: PnP ACPI: found 8 devices

And then it throws you into the ramdisk.

Last edited by logan (2010-03-14 04:35:07)