Install CD will not boot.

insane_alien · 2010-09-15 17:55:38

Hey, I'm reinstalling arch as my harddrive decided it didn't want to live any more and decided to kill itself.

I downloaded the latest install CD (my old one is a few revisions behind probably cause more problems if i used it) and tried to install. The CD appears to run normally but i just end up with a blank screen, no login, no messages, nothing. It's not the CD as the md5's match. and its not the hardware as i can boot up knoppix and ubuntu from their respective liveCD's.

any clues?

Inxsible · 2010-09-15 17:58:40

is the machine too old to boot from usb? that could save you some trouble of having to burn multiple CDs and wasting them.

If your machine cannot boot from usb, I would suggest using plop, which is what I used recently and i think its extremely useful to install an OS on an old machine.

This could help : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104055

insane_alien · 2010-09-15 18:07:25

it can boot from USB supposedly, it's worked once at anyrate. seems to be a bit hit and miss though.

also, i don't own a floppy drive at all anymore. its a CD-RW so its not exactly wasting CD's

stefanwilkens · 2010-09-15 18:39:09

just to be sure:

You boot from cd and are immediately presented with a black screen or are you presented with grub (boot manager) and do you end up with a black screen after selecting the top choise in grub?

If the latter is the case, udev may be causing graphics issues.. I have a simmilar problem on my laptop. You can try appending a vga mode to the bootline. You can do so by hitting [tab] while having the top choise selected. try appending vga=773.

insane_alien · 2010-09-16 16:48:43

thanks stefan, that worked perfect.

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#1 2010-09-15 17:55:38

Install CD will not boot.

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#3 2010-09-15 18:07:25

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#4 2010-09-15 18:39:09

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