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Senselessfull

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Registered: 2014-06-03

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physical arch installation unable to boot in vm; ubuntu does boot

Hey there,

my system has 4 drives, 2 for storage and the other 2 have this layout;
ssd1: windows
ssd2: grub, arch, ubuntu

I can boot into every os just fine, but when I try to boot arch from windows with vmware workstation (which has access to the full ssd2) it can't find the root device.

grub boots it just fine, but i get always trown into the recovery shell and there are no drives available i.e. "ls /dev/sd*" return no such device.

Ubuntu boots up just fine.

So, what does arch do differently (and most importantly: how can i change it?) that it doesn't find its disk?

I hope this is the right sub.
EDIT: thanks for moving.

Last edited by Senselessfull (2014-10-20 07:50:49)

jasonwryan

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Re: physical arch installation unable to boot in vm; ubuntu does boot

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Newbie Corner...

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Re: physical arch installation unable to boot in vm; ubuntu does boot

What Arch does is optimise your initrd, so it's tailor made for the hardware you're running. Try booting the fallback initrd - - this should work on any hardware.

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Senselessfull

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Registered: 2014-06-03

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Re: physical arch installation unable to boot in vm; ubuntu does boot

What Arch does is optimise your initrd, so it's tailor made for the hardware you're running. Try booting the fallback initrd - - this should work on any hardware.

Thank you. A lot