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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

[SOLVED] problem booting arch installer image using syslinux + memdisk

Hello everyone,
I am booting the archlinux usb image using syslinux with the following options

LINUX memdisk
INITRD archinstall.img
APPEND raw

and this works just beautifully, I get the grub prompt from the image, I select "boot", then the kernel loads, but then all of a sudden the boot halts with the following error:

ERROR: boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out ...
ramfs$

Is this something I can fix on the ramfs-prompt? Do I need a different config for memdisk?
Anyone have an idea what is going wrong here?

Thanks!

Last edited by awayand (2011-05-05 14:31:14)

awayand

Member

Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

Re: [SOLVED] problem booting arch installer image using syslinux + memdisk

I had to resort to learning all about the linux boot process, bash scripting, kernel compilations, bootloaders and initramfs to fix my issue. I want my Windows back! I'm glad I didn't hold my breath waiting for an answer. *grumblegrumble*

# mkdir /mnt && mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt 
# losetup /dev/loop0 /mnt/ubcd/custom/archlinux-2010.05-netinstall-x86_64.iso
# exit

In short, I connected my .iso to the /dev/loop0 device and exited the recovery console to continue the arch boot process.