FS#10529 - 2008.04-RC Fails to Load default grub menu at installation boot
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Opened by Michael J. Abel (zeifertstc) - Thursday, 29 May 2008, 08:19 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:25 GMT
Opened by Michael J. Abel (zeifertstc) - Thursday, 29 May 2008, 08:19 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:25 GMT
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[NOTE: This bug does NOT apply to 2007.08-2, this bug DOES apply to 2008.04-RC which will not boot properly on my system.] CD does boot at startup as in, it spins up and gets to grub. Grub then acts dumb and seems to "misplace" the kernel it's supposed to be loading. In other words I sit here looking at: grub>_ My original question under Installation on bbs.archlinux.org was for the commands I should toss at the installer to achieve the desired result of seeing the fancy boot menu that was designed for this ISO. However, I guess I should try to help get this thing fixed while I'm reporting this bug. Additional info: System Specs: eMachines W3503 (base system) 3.33GHz Intel Celeron D Core 2 Duo (add in) 1GB RAM (add in) 256MB ATI X1650 (add in) Sound Blaster Audigy 24-bit surround sound card (add in) Netgear WG311v3 wireless network card 1x LITE-ON DVD+/-RW (original) (add in) 1x NEC_DVD DVD+/-RW Original 160GB HDD (add in) 20GB HDD (add on [usb]) Western Digital 250GB External HDD * package version(s) Unknown * config and/or log files etc. Not Applicable Steps to reproduce: Try booting up on a system configured as close to mine as possible. Since I am sure that I am either the first or among the very few who have tried this new installer and had it fail, it may just be a piece of hardware that I have that not many others do? I do not see, however, how a piece of hardware could make a pre-configured piece of software "lose" it's kernel and sit waiting for instruction like this. It is rather strange and unusual to me. Since I have never had to pass kernel commands to Grub manually before, it's a new thing to me. If I knew what to toss at it, this might not be an issue. |
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Closed by Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:25 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: Old disk, obsolete
Friday, 12 December 2008, 18:25 GMT
Reason for closing: Deferred
Additional comments about closing: Old disk, obsolete
Would you mind checking to see if another grub-based boot disk works? Like this? http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
grub>_
Since all other Arch installers are currently non-functional for some reason or other, I am left with a feeling of withdrawal from Archlinux. Duke x86_64 fails to cache packages and so does "Don't Panic" x86. This one, of course, won't let me get far enough in to actually see if it will install.
Guess I am one of very few numbers affected by this malcontent hardware problem. If I may ask, what hardware issue is involved here? It isn't something cheaply (or freely) remedied, is it?
Intel Core2 Duo T7500 DVD-RW.......
Mick
1) The ISO you downloaded isn't corrupt
2) Tried with a different CD-R or even a different brand
3) Used another CD-ROM drive
Most CD-writing software have an option to check the integrity of the burnt CD, try and enable that option. Otherwise use dd to copy the contents of the CD-ROM back to the harddisk and MD5-sum it. It should match the MD5 sum of the ISO you downloaded.
(By the way you can still install Arch Linux using knoppix)
We need to seriously look into this some more, and consider providing isolinux disks on the side if we can't figure anything else out (from a technical standpoint, it shouldnt be hard to do).
In the meantime, your hardware sounds pretty new, and might be able to boot off of a USB drive, I'd recommend trying that for the time being.
But we haven't heard from the original reporter after my post from 17 june. Maybe we should wait after he's tried what I suggested?
Can you guys check to see if booting from a USB stick works in the interim?
As per neotuli's post about the possibility of USB booting, my bios does not seem to offer that capability. (which saddens me to no end, mind you) Since the bios doesn't seem to support that functionality and I have no floppy option for this particular setup, I'd prefer the standard isolinux discs as they generally work quite well.
I just wish I could see the "awesome" from this particular disc. The menu, and options on the menu, are of much interest to me. On a side note and at the risk of making an installer iso that much larger, what are the chances of creating an Ubuntu-esque approach to installing arch. Perhaps a fluxbuntu based livecd with minimal options so that a system can be installed from livecd with the option of referring to a wiki via dillo or similar lightweight browser app? I used to have my laptop to fall back on for necessarily vital info and am now unable to do so. It is my opinion that a disc with the option to install the LiveCD setup or perform a netinst would be beneficial to users with limited download capability. (ie., 256k DSL connection with download rates at a max of 32.1kb/s)
So instead of eg kernel=blablalbla lalalalallala
its
kernel=blablalbla
lalalalallala
Check your menu.lst
Is this related or another bug?
Also running a C2duo 7200 on asus p5q mobo (p45 chipset)
I suspect this might be related to editing the kernel line:
* after editing the main entry (ie default archlinux 0 option, to add vga=773) the this entry was broken but,
* the fallback boot entry was not edited and not affected
* this happened to me at least 3 times in 3 different installations, but I always add vga=773 to the main entry, haven't checked if it doesn't happen otherwise
Naive suggestion: I chose nano as an editor. Are we using nano -w to edit menu.lst? Because adding the vga=773 option to the default entry just made it longer than 88 chars (my console screen width)!
mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1400+
IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C
Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 80)
CD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212
I had to use Archlinux-i686-2008.03-1-archboot.ftp.iso instead.