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Krisando

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Registered: 2010-08-29

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ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds

Hey community,
I've been using Arch on my laptop for awhile now, but now I need it on my other desktops. Whenever I try boot from the install disk on my 2 PC's I get the error message.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when installing Arch on another computer, around dealing with partition tables and what not.. There is a select boot drive function. If this is what the error is referring to, how could I access the utility for this and set a boot drive.

Thanks,
Chris.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds

There are quite a few posts on this:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93645
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103031
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77815

Have a look at those posts and, if you can't get it sorted, come back with more specific details about what is going wrong.

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Krisando

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Registered: 2010-08-29

Posts: 10

Re: ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds

Okay, I've now weaved through all of those topics + others, doing everything suggested. (In Ramfs)

Didn't seem to have made any difference to the situation, Ubuntu installed fine.. So did Debian.

Krisando

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Registered: 2010-08-29

Posts: 10

Re: ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds

Bump.. Arch Linux will still not installed. Tried:
udevadm trigger
exit

And also booting from a flash drive, resulting in exactly the same error.

Is there any workaround or fix for this bug?

cirkit

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From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds

I ran into this problem when booting a 201005 install image from a USB stick. From what I came across, this was reported to be a bug that caused the boot device error. After researching this problem for a bit, I realized the installer was looking for an "ARCH_201005" label when booting either architecture

If memory serves correct, this is exactly what I did....

1) fdisk/cfdisk /dev/sdX to create ~350MB partition for USB key
2) mkfs.vfat -n 'ARCH_201005' /dev/sdX  # MUST LABEL IT -> ARCH_201005
3) use unetbootin to put .iso file onto new vfat partition
4) boot up installation medium (in my case the USB key), wait for -> ERROR: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds 
5) while dropped to ramfs, go into /dev and make a symlink with something like:  ln -s ARCH_201005 archiso 
6) exit .. and the boot process should resume

Hope this helps