Christopher Moore <chris.w1gm at gmail.com> writes: > Also I can't boot from USB media. I get the 30 second waiting for > device error. It's trying to mount a loopback device very early in > the boot process. I've seen this before but can't remember how to fix > it. I created the stick by copying the arch directory and installing > syslinux on it and adding the syslinux mbr. The correct way to create a bootable USB stick for BIOS-based systems is with dd. Just use dd to write the ISO image to the stick: dd if=my-image.iso of=/dev/path-to-my-stick. Don't write to a partition, write to the raw stick. For example, use /dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1. The instructions are a bit different for UEFI based systems. If you have UEFI, I'd advise looking at the UEFI-related articles in the Arch Wiki. -- Chris
