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leophys

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 6

Boot from cd stops in Arch installation on MacBook Pro 8,1

Hi everybody, I'm trying to install Arch on a Macbook Pro 8,1 since 3 days (following the MacBook guide) but after launching both arch and archide (I'm using the 2010/05 x86_64 Netinstall) I'm thrown in ramfs$ after receiving:

 ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds 

I found the same error in this topic that links this bug. The solution proposed there is to manually link

/dev/sr0

to

/dev/archiso

. And somewhere else in that same post was also suggested to manually

mount -t vfat /dev/archiso /bootmnt

(I think that the vfat type was because in that case the boot device was a USB...).

Well, all of this for me doesn't work...I receive a error message that says that

/dev/archiso

has been found, but it is of an unknown type...and appear some kernel panic messages due to the absence of something on /bootmnt.

What should I do? Some suggestion? Please give a hand to a little helpless newbie

Greetings

Leo

Last edited by leophys (2011-03-19 18:28:36)

leophys

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 6

Re: Boot from cd stops in Arch installation on MacBook Pro 8,1

Noone can help?

tsphan

Member

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1

Re: Boot from cd stops in Arch installation on MacBook Pro 8,1

Before it throws you back at ramfs, does it say "Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201005"?

If it does, try the following:

mkdir /dev/disk/by-label
ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201005
exit

or replace /dev/sr0 with your optical drive.

leophys

Member

From: Rome

Registered: 2011-03-19

Posts: 6

Re: Boot from cd stops in Arch installation on MacBook Pro 8,1

First of all, thanks for tha answer

No, the first time is says only "ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds ". I tried to do what you suggested but the behavior was the same, except the fact that it specifies the boot device it waits as "/dev/archiso". I tried to link "/dev/sr0" to it, but no results :\ ...mmmm, what to do?

Hi

Leo