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#1 2010-06-01 02:14:10

ial
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Registered: 2010-05-31
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2010.05 and 2009.08 Inexplicably Reboot on Load

Forgive my weak Google-fu if this has come up already, but I am unable to boot into the Arch Linux installer environment using the 2009.08 and 2010.05 (Net) CD images, although I am installing fine via the 2009.02 (FTP, GRUB) image as I type this post.  (At least I can get as far as loading it.  As an aside, the 2007.08 image booted fine as well.)  Whenever I try to boot into the installer, it only gets as far as:

Loading /boot/vmlinuz26...[...]
Loading /boot/archiso.img...[...] ready.
(Here the screen is being overwritten starting from the archiso.img line.)
Decompressing Linux...
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok

before the computer inexplicably reboots back to the BIOS.  Disabling the EDD probe did not help.  I can't even load Memtest86+ as that either causes a reboot, too, or just locks the machine up on "loading."  The x86test CPU test seems to work fine, though.


My hardware is:

* Pentium III (Katmai C0 250nm) 500 MHz
* 392 MB RAM (that the BIOS can see, at least)
* 250 GB Hitatchi Deskstar PATA HDD
* temporarily connected PATA CD-ROM drive
* some 10/100 NIC from Lite-On
* ironically, the manual that tells me what mainboard I'm using is on this system I'm installing

Anyone have any clue what's going on?

(Meanwhile, it looks like I'll have to get one of the Core images anyway, as the installer is complaining about unsupported archive formats; it doesn't even come with the xz utility.)

Thanks!

Last edited by ial (2010-06-01 03:35:23)

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#2 2010-06-01 07:26:47

brain0
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From: Aachen - Germany
Registered: 2005-01-03
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Re: 2010.05 and 2009.08 Inexplicably Reboot on Load

Can you boot any other modern live CD? This sounds a lot like hardware failure to me. Another explanation might be a bad CD - actually two bad CDs.

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#3 2010-06-02 00:20:31

ial
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Registered: 2010-05-31
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Re: 2010.05 and 2009.08 Inexplicably Reboot on Load

Three "bad" images, in fact: the 2010.05 Core image doesn't boot, whereas the 2009.02 Core does.  Mind you, these were all written to the same CD-RW medium.  The order of the burns were as follow:

1. (previous contents, I think openSUSE 11.2, erased)
2. 2010.05 Net
3. 2009.08 Net
4. 2007.08 FTP (works)
5. 2009.02 Net (works)
6. 2010.05 Core
7. 2009.02 Core (works and installed).

I have just booted the machine fine into Knoppix LiveCD v6.2.1, which is running Linux Kernel 2.6.32.6, released 2010-01-31.

Update!

To my pleasure and amazement, after updating my system to the 2.6.33.4-1 kernel package from my installed system I can still boot fine.  This suggests that, assuming I wasn't just getting bad burns (which shouldn't have gotten past the burn-check anyway), there must be something in the newest two LiveCDs that doesn't like my hardware.

Last edited by ial (2010-06-02 06:00:54)

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