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diconico07

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From: France

Registered: 2010-11-13

Posts: 4

[Solved] Boot on installation cd error

Hello,
I use archlinux on my laptop for a while now, but quite recently a problem occurred : I can't boot without an error, that unable me from booting. So I saved my data using another system (an ubuntu based distribution), and tried to reinstall arch, but the same problem I got with the system installed occur with the cd.
Here is what the cd is telling me when I try to boot :

:: Waiting for boot device
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/  ...
[    8.333980] sd 7:0:0:0 : [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[another time] sd 7:0:0:0 : [sdb] Assuming drive cache : write through

(the sames two messages three times)

Error : boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds ...
 Falling back to interactive prompt
 You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished.
sh : can't access tty; job control turned off.
[ramfs /]#

I tried to get more information using the prompt, but I only see no disks in /dev/

Thank you for trying to help me on that problem.

Last edited by diconico07 (2012-03-21 22:21:53)

jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 485

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Re: [Solved] Boot on installation cd error

Could be the infamous linux / udev upgrade problem. See bottom of this page.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … onger_boot.

Last edited by jdarnold (2012-03-21 16:58:49)

diconico07

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From: France

Registered: 2010-11-13

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Boot on installation cd error

Could be yes, but I can't even boot from an arch livecd, so I don't think it this problem.

djgera

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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina

Registered: 2008-12-24

Posts: 723

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Re: [Solved] Boot on installation cd error

You missed the step of assign the filesystem label, thats all. Fix it. However, you can still boot if pass as bootparam archisodevice=/dev/sdb1 in your case.

diconico07

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From: France

Registered: 2010-11-13

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Boot on installation cd error

That's it, thank you.