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Cannot Boot From DVD

Hi,

This is my first post (after I introduced myself).

I downloaded artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso just now, and burnt a DVD (used Windows actually as I my Endeavour couldn't detect the external USB DVD burner).

Any way, pressing F12 to select boot device, then select the external DVD it doesn't boot, it just boots the installed Endeavour.

I have searched and found a few similar problems, including https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1669.0.html
But unfortunately I am not that techie, and didn't want to play with Grub without and cant boot).

Any help how to boot DVD? Is there a way to install/boot from a 64 GB USB flash drive (Which I prefer more than DVD)?

Thanks a lot for you support.

To make it easier here is my machine:
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[limo@limo ~]$ inxi -F
System:    Host: limo Kernel: 5.10.72-1-lts x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20157 v: Lenovo G580 serial: <superuser required>
           Mobo: LENOVO model: Emerald Lake 2 v: FAB1 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: 62CN34WW date: 04/26/2012
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.7 Wh (97.6%) condition: 25.3/42.8 Wh (59.1%)
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
           Speed: 2396 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2396 2: 1538 3: 1309 4: 1460
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
           Device-2: Acer Lenovo Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
           Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: intel unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
           resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.72-1-lts running: yes
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter driver: wl
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 08:ed:b9:97:27:0f
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8162 Fast Ethernet driver: alx
           IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: f0:de:f1:fd:53:97
Bluetooth: Device-1: Foxconn / Hon Hai Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: disabled rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
           address: see --recommends
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 18.31 GiB (3.9%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9500325AS size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 456.88 GiB used: 18.1 GiB (4.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0 C mobo: 50.0 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:      Processes: 165 Uptime: 27m Memory: 3.69 GiB used: 1.71 GiB (46.3%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.05
[limo@limo ~]$

System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
8 GB Ram - SSD:  (250 GiB), BTRFS

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #1
Haven't used DVD for years. Yeah, give your USB stick a try. It's faster and better supported these days.

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #2
I just tried again, formatted NTFS then
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[limo@limo Downloads]$ sudo dd if=artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
[sudo] password for limo:
dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': No space left on device
1695+0 records in
1694+0 records out
1777211392 bytes (1.8 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 51.3448 s, 34.6 MB/s
[limo@limo Downloads]$

Why "dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': No space left on device"?
UPDATE:
I booted the USB flashdisk, all it gave be a black screen with just the text "Grub" on the top left corner.
System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
8 GB Ram - SSD:  (250 GiB), BTRFS

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #3
I just tried again, formatted NTFS then
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[limo@limo Downloads]$ sudo dd if=artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M
[sudo] password for limo:
dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': No space left on device
1695+0 records in
1694+0 records out
1777211392 bytes (1.8 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 51.3448 s, 34.6 MB/s
[limo@limo Downloads]$

Why "dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': No space left on device"?


Use /dev/sdc, /dev/sdc1 is a partition. You need device here. Before you run the cmd, use

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$lsblk

to make sure sdc is the device that you want to write the iso in.

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #4
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Why "dd: error writing '/dev/sdc1': No space left on device"?
UPDATE:
I booted the USB flashdisk, all it gave be a black screen with just the text "Grub" on the top left corner.
Do not specify partition , instead use /dev/sdc
Create problems which don't have solution


Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #6
Do not specify partition , instead use /dev/sdc
OK, tried again
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limo@limo ~]$ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for limo:
/dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition.
Refusing to make a filesystem here!
[limo@limo ~]$

Then as you mentioned used only "sdc" (Sorry my fault here, not the correct folder)
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[limo@limo ~]$ sudo dd if=artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
[sudo] password for limo:
dd: failed to open 'artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso': No such file or directory
[limo@limo ~]$

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[limo@limo Downloads]$ sudo dd if=artix-plasma-openrc-20210726-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
[sudo] password for limo:
1698+1 records in
1698+1 records out
1781438464 bytes (1.8 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 37.5912 s, 47.4 MB/s
[limo@limo Downloads]$

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System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
8 GB Ram - SSD:  (250 GiB), BTRFS

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #7
 :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)  :)

Thank you all of you amazing people.
This message is after I booted from USB flash drive.

Life is wonderful.

Just one question to be sure.
I assume as I am coming from Endeavour things will be almost the same (pamac, pcaman, repos, AUR..)
There is a package manager already?
Right?
System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
8 GB Ram - SSD:  (250 GiB), BTRFS

 

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #8
Use of GUI package managers is highly discouraged, as they can at worst make system unbootable. Use pacman and set up repositories according to our guide.

AUR is not officially supported, neither by Artix nor Arch, due to its very nature. Read the Arch wiki, and in particular the articles I linked, for details.

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #9
Use of GUI package managers is highly discouraged, as they can at worst make system unbootable. Use pacman and set up repositories according to our guide.

AUR is not officially supported, neither by Artix nor Arch, due to its very nature. Read the Arch wiki, and in particular the articles I linked, for details.
Sure.
Thank you very much.
System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
8 GB Ram - SSD:  (250 GiB), BTRFS

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #10
As I read through this post I took a look at the linked wiki page regarding other repos than artix's native repos. It may not exactly fit this topic here, but may I suggest adding a hint at the wiki for populating the keyring after altering the pacman conf?
Something like:
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Hint: You may consider populating the keyring after adding repos in the pacman.conf. To do so use the following command: pacman-key --populate <KEYRING_NAME>
as always, correct me if I'm wrong ;)

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #11
As I read through this post I took a look at the linked wiki page regarding other repos than artix's native repos. It may not exactly fit this topic here, but may I suggest adding a hint at the wiki for populating the keyring after altering the pacman conf?
Something like:
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Hint: You may consider populating the keyring after adding repos in the pacman.conf. To do so use the following command: pacman-key --populate <KEYRING_NAME>
The wiki already contains this:
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories
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As of June 2021, all Arch repositories are disabled by default. To enable them, install artix-archlinux-support and follow the on-screen instructions to activate the Arch repositories you want, most likely extra, community and multilib, which contain packages not yet in Artix repositories. Do not enable community alone as it contains packages dependent on others in extra.
The command you quoted is listed at the very end of the installation of artix-archlinux-support package by a pacman hook.

Re: Cannot Boot From DVD

Reply #12
You are right. I admit I did not read the wiki close enough to grasp that detail. Sorry for the hassle ;)
as always, correct me if I'm wrong ;)