[ILUG-Cochin.org] Installing Arch linux

[Sebin Jacob]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM, unni krishnan <unnikrishnan.a at gmail.com>wrote:

> Usual mistakes happens when creating a bootable CD are :
>
> 1. burning the ISO file as data file to cd.
>
> Are you sure that you burned the iso as disk image in your CD burner ?


Yea, I burned it as a bootable medium.


>
>
> 2. Not switching the boot medium.
>
> Make sure that you changed the boot medium to the CD drive in bios. The
> modern mother boards support the F8 switching in which you can press the F8
> key to get the list of available boot media after the mother bard splash
> screen while booting.


Bios was set to first boot from CD if any is present.

The problem might be with Nero, which I used to burn the image. So following
the tip of harikrishnan, I used k3b and was successful in booting with that
CD.
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