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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 529

unable to boot last archlinux iso on usb stick

I wanted to create an usb flash installation media of archlinux with an usb key,

usually I use this method ( with syslinux ) :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … formatting

I create a bootable usb key ( vfat ) with syslinux 6.02, and I create a syslinux.cfg file like this :

UI menu.c32
DEFAULT arch32

        LABEL arch32
	MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (i686)
	MENU INDENT 1
	LINUX /progs/archlinux/arch/boot/i686/vmlinuz
	INITRD /progs/archlinux/arch/boot/i686/archiso.img
	APPEND archisobasedir=/progs/archlinux/arch archisodevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/4489-C09F
	
	LABEL arch64
	MENU LABEL Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)
	MENU INDENT 1
	LINUX /progs/archlinux/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz
	INITRD /progs/archlinux/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
	APPEND archisobasedir=/progs/archlinux/arch archisodevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/4489-C09F

this method works without problems with the 2014-04-01 archlinux iso,

but with 2014-05-01 archlinux iso it doesn't work, I get an error message from archlinux :

Mounting '/dev/disk/by-uuid/4489-C09F' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 secondes for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/4489-C09F ...
[9.005592] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[9.005796] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[9.009969] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[9.010207] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[9.014728] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[9.014940] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[9.987355] FAT-fs (sdb1): IO charset iso8859-1 not found
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
  missing codepage or helper program, or other error

  In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
  dmesg | tail or so.
ERROR: Failed to mount '/dev/disk/by-uuid/4489-C09F'
  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
[rootfs /]#

I don't understand why it's doesn't work with the 2014-05-01 archlinux iso version, something seems broken with this version about the "/dev/disk/by-uuid/" method

Last edited by Potomac (2014-05-23 23:58:33)

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 529

Re: unable to boot last archlinux iso on usb stick

I found a bugreport :

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40217

I hope the next iso ( 2014-06-01 ) will fix this problem