ISO Image not booting - GRUB cannot find cdrom

I am using the archlinux-2008.06-core ISO image in my Acer Travelmate 2350.
Instead of showing the menu GRUB drops me to the shell. It seems it cannot load the menu.lst due to not finding the cdrom.
I found a similar bug filed under: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6292
It was closed by using isolinux instead of grub.
Is this a known problem?

tigrmesh wrote:
Arch is rolling release. Once you
pacman -Syu
you're up to date. It doesn't matter what ISO you use. Having said that, you will want to use 2008.03 or newer. Pacman changed considerably between 2007.08 and 2008.03.
Yes, I know that it is a rolling release. Still, there are some differences in the installations between the ISOs. The one significant difference that I know of is the usage of UUIDs in Overlord. I will try the 2008.3 and just stab fstab to use UUIDs myself. But what I'd like to know is if there are any other new things in Overlord that I should be prepared to repair in the old release.

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Greetings Arch Linux Community,
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ERROR: device '4b28d500-8ed3-4fe5-ad26-97fbb01f979b' not found. Skipping fsck
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NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
fd0
sda
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├─sda3 ext4 659e5bcf-b34b-4083-b8e5-e336fdd20c3d /mnt/boot
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sr0 iso9660 ARCH_201405 2014-05-01-05-20-54-00 /run/archiso/bootmnt
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loop2 ext4 f07bfb26-3377-487a-a022-efd840614a0d
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--- Physical volume ---
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PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 2175
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 2175
PV UUID GNznA5-fwUh-Gw6D-JvY4-rZKJ-d6fP-TIyoRZ
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--- Volume group ---
VG Name VolGroup00
System ID
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Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 3
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
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Max PV 0
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PE Size 4.00 MiB
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--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/VolGroup00/lvroot
LV Name lvroot
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# open 1
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Current LE 1280
Segments 1
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Read ahead sectors auto
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Block device 254:1
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LV Name lvhome
VG Name VolGroup00
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LV Write Access read/write
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Current LE 895
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Read ahead sectors auto
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# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
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UUID=4b28d500-8ed3-4fe5-ad26-97fbb01f979b / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
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root@archiso / # cat /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.conf| grep "HOOKS"
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# HOOKS="base"
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect block filesystems"
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Last edited by garrio (2014-05-18 00:42:36)

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parted -l]http://www.hrtmn.net/Images/parted.png
And here is the output of lsblk:
parted -l]http://www.hrtmn.net/Images/lsblk.png
bootmgfw.efi:
parted -l]http://www.hrtmn.net/Images/bootmgfw.png
Moderator edit: Redacted huge images
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