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jiandingzhe

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Registered: 2013-07-01

Posts: 1

Blank screen after boot

I installed arch in a virtualbox VM using the disk 2013.11.01. Everything seems to be correct. But after I boot into the new system, the screen kept blank.

I tried the "Fallback initramfs" in grub menu, it shows:
error: no such device "XXXXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXXXXX-XXXXXX"
Loading linux core repo kernel ...
error: no such partition
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first

My system is installed on a GPT partition table. The VM is a BIOS system.

Disk /dev/sda: 83886080 sectors, 40.0 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 6846B7BC-C1B5-4C9F-BBE7-6E227CDB84E2
Partition Table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sectoris 34, last usable sector is 83886046
Partitions will be aligned on 2-sector bondaries
Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes)

Number    Start (sector)   End (sector)  Size      Code   Name
   1             2048        83886046   40.0 GiB   8300   Linux filesystem
   2               34            2047   1007.0 KiB EF02   BIOS boot partition

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Blank screen after boot

Everything seems right.

Since grub cannot find the kernel or initramfs, I would say that everything does not seem right.  Did you actually generate a grub.cfg?  If so have to checked to see that it is actually trying to find the proper partition with vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img?

Also, for things like the gdisk output (of fdisk if that is what you used) and the grub errors, you need to use code blocks.  To see how this is done, follow the BBCode link below.

Edit: Also, I just noticed, why is your grub boot partition (ef02) before sector 2048?  This area is blank for a reason.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-12-01 03:33:17)