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#1 2012-04-15 16:43:02
- Fighter19
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Adding NTFS support to initrd.img?
I'm trying to boot Archlinux from a virtual file located on /dev/sda5 wich is formatted as ntfs (works with an Ubuntu Kernel&Ubuntu initrd.img but I think, that isn't the best way to keep the system up-to-date).
So I've run into trouble while booting. It was something about fsck.ntfs is missing. Then I tried to add fsck.ntfs as a link to ntfsfix into the initrd-linux.img. Now I get mount: Operation not permitted or something like that and in addition it says I would need to be root. And since I'm still a noob to Kernel things, I would need some help to fix this ^^. I tried to Google, but I didn't found anything.
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#2 2012-04-15 22:05:02
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: Adding NTFS support to initrd.img?
Possibly the recently added mkinitcpio fsck hook is causing this, is either your root or /usr partition on NTFS ?
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#3 2012-04-15 22:06:27
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#4 2012-04-16 13:16:16
- Fighter19
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Re: Adding NTFS support to initrd.img?
Oh... Thats the problem ^^. So theres no way to mount a loopback fs with mkinitcpio yet? thx for the help 
EDIT: Or maybe add the support manually.
EDIT2: Or building a custom kernel with the loop module integrated.... that's what I'm going to try right now
EDIT3: Hmmm... seems to doesn't work... Still no /dev/loop0
EDIT4: Got it working with some scripts and big customization from here http://code.google.com/p/archlive/wiki/BootArchFromLoop!! 
Last edited by Fighter19 (2012-04-18 14:24:22)
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