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FS#39547 - Cannot boot recent ISO, since 2013-12-01

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Andrew (abrouwers) - Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 23:21 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 22:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The last three ISOs have failed to boot on my laptop; I am trying to boot via. USB (after a simple "dd" to the stick); every time, my system cannot leave the initramfs; attached is a photograph of how the boot process ends.

2013-12-01 works well using the same USB stick + laptop.
   IMG_20140319_185515.jpg (1.78 MiB)
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Thursday, 20 March 2014, 22:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 01:35 GMT
Weird, nothing was changed from archiso point of view on early stage from v13 to v14, so this is an issue in another place

you should see this:

--
:: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201403' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
:: Device '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201403' mounted successfully.
:: Mounting /run/archiso/cowspace (tmpfs) filesystem, size=75%...
:: Mounting '/dev/loop0' to '/run/archiso/sfs/root-image'
:: Device '/dev/loop0' mounted successfully.
:: Creating '/run/archiso/cowspace/persistent_ARCH_201403/x86_64/root-image.cow' as non-persistent.
:: Mounting '/dev/mapper/arch_root-image' to '/new_root/'
:: Device '/dev/mapper/arch_root-image' mounted successfully.
:: running late hook [archiso_pxe_common]
:: running cleanup hook [archiso_shutdown]
:: running cleanup hook [udev]
--

Please give the output of:
lsmod
blkid
losetup
dmsetup table
mount
cat /proc/cmdline
cat /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch/aitab
dmesg (last lines)
Comment by Andrew (abrouwers) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 21:55 GMT
Sorry, I don't have any method to save these as text files! I cannot access my partitions, networking, etc. So, here are two photos that show off all output from commands.
   IMG_20140320_175120.jpg (1.99 MiB)
   IMG_20140320_175253.jpg (1.93 MiB)
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 22:02 GMT
OK, The content of aitab file (a plain text file) is with garbage. Do you check the checksum of the ISO image before/after is on the target?
Comment by Andrew (abrouwers) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 22:23 GMT
Wow, indeed, the write was bad! I tried this stick twice since January with all ISOs that were built, and it never booted the arch installer since the 2013-12 release; what's more, it did boot the fedora image. So, I thought something was off with the ISO or my hardware.

After confirming the ISO was written correctly (via. "cmp"), all is well. I'm sorry for the noise!
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Thursday, 20 March 2014, 22:50 GMT
Nice. No problem.

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