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jubei

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Registered: 2009-10-09

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2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

Hello,
It's been a while since I last tried Arch. Yesterday I downloaded the new installation media (archlinux-2011.08.19-netinstall-x86_64.iso ), verified md5sum,and burnt it to a CD.
At first It seemed to boot just fine, however after it reached: init version 2.88 booting it started to spit a lot of errors namely:
end request, i/o errors.....
buffer i/o errors on device...
squashfs error:.......
It halted at " INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes

Any clue how to solve this???
Thanks

djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 723

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Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

Hello

There is a new checksum boot param option for self-test, but of course this will fail. Do you run md5sum on your burned media? If it OK, then is a can be a firmware issue. Do you have a LG drive?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25687 Another boot fail is here, but I do not know if user gets buffer I/O errors.

Complete error code can be useful (scsi sense code).

Last edited by djgera (2011-08-21 03:48:31)

jubei

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 8

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

No, I don't run md5sum on burnt media. Where is the correct md5sum for burnt media?
Yes, I dohave LG drive

Is there any image for USB flashdisk?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

No, I don't run md5sum on burnt media. Where is the correct md5sum for burnt media?

http://www.archlinux.org/iso/2011.08.19/md5sums.txt

satanselbow

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Registered: 2011-06-15

Posts: 538

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

Is there any image for USB flashdisk?

Just use:

dd if='path-to-iso' of=/dev/sdX

I did have to "clean" my usb stick before hand with HP USB Tool in Windows as moving the ISO onto a "dirty" stick generated errors similar to those you are experiencing

You can also use 'Unetbootin' which will look after formatting the stick "properly" for you within linux

Last edited by satanselbow (2011-08-21 09:46:44)

jubei

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 8

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

Error messages:
http://i51.tinypic.com/23uoqqt.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/2qv8en7.jpg
sorry for the quality.

Moderator edit:
Please do not include images of this size in your posts: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code

Last edited by bernarcher (2011-08-21 10:09:13)

jubei

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 8

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

ups..sorry

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: 2011.08.19 installation media - booting problem

When you are in the boot menu, press <Tab> and type 'checksum=y' on the end of the command line. Also, how much memory do you have?