[SOLVED]/boot/sda4: recovering journal

Sameer · 2013-09-20 10:35:44

Hi,
I have Windows 8 64-bit with MBR Legacy bios boot.
Installed Arch 32 bit on /dev/sda4... (a primary partition)
Windows 8 boots fine. But,

when I booted Arch, I saw the following:

/dev/sda4: recovering journal
/dev/sda4: clean, some numbers / some numbers file, some numbers / some numbers blocks
[ some number] kvm: disabled by bios

And then nothing happens.

It showed kvm error only sometimes.
Then I enabled Intel virtualization technology from the bios.
Now I think the kvm error is gone (But I am not sure that enabling Intel virtualization technology solved the kvm error).

But still it shows previous two messages and nothing happens

I am first time on Arch, please help me...

Last edited by Sameer (2013-09-24 11:28:07)

clfarron4 · 2013-09-20 13:35:33

After you see that code, does Arch successfully load or not?

1) After I shut my laptop down by pulling the plug and reboot (instead of properly shutting down), I get the same recovering journal messages because not everything was properly written to disk when I killed the power.

2) You don't need to worry about the kvm message unless you are going to be running virtual machines on your rig.

Sameer · 2013-09-20 15:36:44

Thanks for the reply...

No it doesn't boot... Everything just stucks there...
nothing happens there after...
I also tried the fallback entry but again the same thing...

Sameer · 2013-09-21 17:33:52

Today I reinstalled Arch and still the problem persists....

bjornoslav · 2013-09-21 17:51:49

Which kind of laptop are you installing Arch on?

WorMzy · 2013-09-21 18:05:08

Boot without "quiet" in your kernel parameters. I'm guessing systemd is waiting for something to start/show up.

Sameer · 2013-09-22 15:16:52

bjornoslav wrote:

Which kind of laptop are you installing Arch on?

Thanks!

No... its a desktop:
core i7, Asus MoBo, 1TB HDD some occupied by Win 64bit
Partitioning: MBR
sda1: primary (Windows system reserved)
sda2: primary (C)
sda3: Extended
sda5: logical (D)
sda6: logical (E)
sda4: primary (Made it ext4 and installed Arch here)

WorMzy wrote:

Boot without "quiet" in your kernel parameters. I'm guessing systemd is waiting for something to start/show up.

Thanks!
I tried that...
I see thefollowing...

Booting a command list
Loading a Linux core repo kernel ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

And then on the next screen...

:: running early hook [udev]
:: running hook [udev]
:: triggering uevents ...
:: performing fsck on 'dev/sda4'
/dev/sda4: recovering journal
/dev/sda4: clean xyz/xyz files, xyz/xyz blocks
:: mounting /dev/sda4 on real root
:: running cleanup hook [udev]
Welcome to Arch Linux!
[ OK ] Reached target Remote File System
[ OK ]
.
.
.
.

[ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts.
[ OK ] Started Login Service.
[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.

Everything shows [ OK ] But
it stuck after one of last three lines above...
Absolutely nothing happens then...
I reformatted /dev/sda4 to ext4 and then again installed Arch linux on it but
still the problem persists...

please help me...

aaditya · 2013-09-22 15:37:50

Btw why are you trying to Arch x86(32 bit)? Its for old processors, as you have i7 install Arch x86-64 (64 bit).

bjornoslav · 2013-09-22 15:59:41

Do you install just the base system packages?

WonderWoofy · 2013-09-22 16:20:03

Are you sure that it is actually stuck? I have a machine that runs on a rotational drive, and the parallel starting of services makes it so that I get a login prompt and then it continues to print a few more messages of services starting (as I have asked it to do since I don't have 'quiet' on the kernel command line).

After it gets to the point where you think it has frozen, can you use either ctrl+alt+F2 or alt+→ to see if there is a prompt waiting for you on /dev/tty2?

Sameer · 2013-09-22 17:29:06

aaditya wrote:

Btw why are you trying to Arch x86(32 bit)? Its for old processors, as you have i7 install Arch x86-64 (64 bit).

Actually I'm learning x86 assembly... so that's required... at least for a couple of months until I get my old comp back from my fellow....

bjornoslav wrote:

Do you install just the base system packages?

Yes as in Wiki, I did just

pacstrap /mnt base

that's it..

WonderWoofy wrote:

ctrl+alt+F2 or alt+→

I'll try that and tell you soon...

WonderWoofy · 2013-09-22 18:32:38

Sameer wrote:

Actually I'm learning x86 assembly... so that's required...

You know that 64bit kernels are able to run i686 stuff? There is a whole multilib repository… might that work?

Sameer · 2013-09-23 06:28:59

WonderWoofy wrote:

ctrl+alt+F2 or alt+→

I tried that... unfortunately nothing happened...
Btw I have done both the installation with the same installation usb key(i.e. with the exact same write on the usb)...
I'll try writing the usb key again and then will try to reinstall...

WonderWoofy wrote:

You know that 64bit kernels are able to run i686 stuff? There is a whole multilib repository… might that work?

I'm agree but our teacher has required that... And anyways, I'll be getting my old comp back then I'll install 64-bit on this comp..

aaditya · 2013-09-23 08:08:51

A suggestion..maybe you could install Arch 32 bit in a virtual machine, and Arch 64 bit on the actual hard disk?
It will also familiarize you with Arch

Sameer · 2013-09-23 15:04:44

Just as a doubt,
I have nvidia gtx 560 graphics card and I naven't installed the drivers yet (Even it comes under "Post installation" in Wiki) might that be the problem? (although these drivers aren't essential to boot)
I can see this:

set gfxpayload=keep

when I edit the GRUB entry...

When I remove that line from the entry, it boots...
But when booted like that, the look is significantly changed...
all the text looks big! It looks ugly and very small number of lines can be seen at a time on the screen...

Dunnow what's going on....

Last edited by Sameer (2013-09-23 17:09:49)

Sameer · 2013-09-24 11:30:16

Ha ha... I just installed nvidia drivers

pacman -S nvidia

and everything is fine now...

Also I disabled the Intel Virtualization Tchnology again...
The "kvm disabled by bios" message appears but it is ignored and it boots.

Thanks everybody!!!

Last edited by Sameer (2013-09-24 11:33:50)

Spider.007 · 2013-09-24 12:48:25

Nice to hear you fixed it, but that sounds a bit like a work-around. Maybe you could have fixed this by disabling kms by passing nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel.

Last edited by Spider.007 (2013-09-24 12:48:34)

Sameer · 2013-09-25 15:23:51

Thanks for the tip...
Anyways I'm gonna install it again on other comps... So, that will be helpful...

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