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bacarni

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Registered: 2012-03-09

Posts: 1

[SOLVED] HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L

Hello!
I'm trying to install Arch on the HP. It has an internal USB-Port with a 32GB Stick and one HDD with 250GB.
Everything during installation works fine. Putting /boot and / on the stick and /var, /home /swap on the hdd.

But after the first reboot I get the following error messing

Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 ...
Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, Attempting to create it.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda1'

So I searched the forum and the Wiki.
I found several solutions, but none worked.

I looked in https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Mkinitcpio and found out, that I had to add

usb

after udev. But it didn't helped.
Then I tried this one: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27385 Didn't work Also I tried putting

rootfstype=ext4

After that I tried removing

autodetect

from HOOKS described in here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 26#p813626 Also didn't work.

So right now I don't have any clue how to fix the problem.

Installed Arch2011.08.19

My fstab during installation (sdc -> USB, sda -> HDD)

sdc1 /boot   ext2
sdc2 /         ext4
sda1 /var     ext4
sda2 /home ext4
sda3/data    ext4
sda4 /swap  swap

Edit:
Finally got it working. Here are instructions https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1059124
Moreover I had to adapt fstab, because the device names changed after the reboot. My internal USB Stick became sdb and not sdc anymore.

Last edited by bacarni (2012-03-09 21:08:11)