This issue is weird since I installed Arch 3 days ago without any problems during boot. Maybe it would be good to try it without -dao ? -- *Jean-Philippe Provost* 2016-11-15 1:45 GMT-05:00 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com>:
On 11/13/2016 12:30 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote:
Hello,
I've freshly downloaded the ISO from the Arch Linux homepage and burned with:
# cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -dao PATH_TO_ISO
Booting from this hangs with waiting for some /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH... device. After waiting for this I get to some kind of "recovery console" missing most tools.
/dev/disk/by-label doesn't exist at all in this minimalistic shell.
Is it possible that booting from a device "by-label" just doesn't work for a DVD drive at all?
Any way to fix this?
Ran into this same problem for the first time in September, just follow the directions and write the .iso to a USB stick and it should boot fine. There is an entire forum thread devoted to this issue. You can read all about the latest theories as to why it happens, there. But regardless, the easiest solution is simply to install from a USB.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.