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Hello,
I've been trying to install Arch Linux on an older laptop that doesn't boot from USB or CD.
I've been following the instructions from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … her_distro, but I'm having this show up on boot:
:: Loading root filesystem module...
Attempting to create root device '/dev/hda1'
unknown
Error: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter.
Waiting for devices to settle...done.
Root device 'dev/hda1' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/hda1'
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/hda1'
...
try adding 'rootdelay=8' or higher to the kernel command-line
Adding rootfstype=ext2 and rootdelay=15 to grub didn't help.
echo * in /dev/ doesn't show anything like a hard disk.
Grub is installed on the MBR, /dev/hda1 should be the root disk (menu.lst is properly found, and I double checked with gparted on Ubuntu).
My suspition lies with the pacman -S kernel26 step performed in chroot, but I'm hoping people will know more about this.
Max
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new ide driver (pata) and kernels since *.17 or *.18 use s* device naming scheme, such as sda1 and sr0. edit mkinitcpio, make sure it's at least like this:
HOOKS=base udev autodetect pata filesystems
and don't worry about the MODULES part. Then (as root) mkinitcpio -p kernelname.Just make sure u have all configs relating to /dev/sd* instead of hd* especially in fstab and menu.lst
Last edited by schivmeister (2007-12-21 18:22:28)
I need real, proper pen and paper for this.
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