[arch-general] ISO broken? Unable to boot from ISO burned to DVD.

[Jean-Philippe Provost]

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 ?

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*Jean-Philippe Provost*

2016-11-15 1:45 GMT-05:00 David C. Rankin <drankinatty at 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.
>