New Macbook Pro

So, I bought myself a new 15 inch Macbook Pro. It’s the 2011 model Macbook Pro 8,2. It has OS X Lion pre-installed, which is also new and shiny. But I was most interested in fitting an Arch Linux into it. I burned a Arch Linux install CD, and booted from it.

Surprisingly it complained about not finding root fs (as far as I can recall) which should be the CD itself. Google showed that the DVD-rom device cannot be identified by the kernel when booting in BIOS mode (as oppose to EFI mode), even though Grub knows it[1. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=935983#p935983,