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sherrellbc

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Registered: 2014-05-26

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Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

I have been trying to install Arch on my new machine but am having issues getting it to work. I have in the past successfully installed the OS on my laptop, but for some reason it just simply will not work with my desktop.

Relevant Hardware:
MSI Z87 Gaming Motherboard (UEFI)
Intel i5 4690k

I do know, however, that the bios on my laptop is not of the UEFI type which could be the underlying issue here. To make the live-usb I do exactly as the guide states and use USB-Writer. I have also tried Universal-USB-installer and Rufus in an effort to get a working live-usb but all have the same issue in that they appear to freeze at the same spot.

An interesting note: I am able to successfully boot from my live-usb on my laptop (the very same that fails on my desktop). Therefore, I must be missing something specific to a piece of hardware my machine has or the fact that it uses UEFI. I was able to successfully create a gparted bootable usb to partition my drive, but the Arch image does not work so easily for some reason.

Any ideas?

Last edited by sherrellbc (2014-11-27 03:51:34)

sherrellbc

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Registered: 2014-05-26

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Re: Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

On the beginner page here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/be … t_problems

It gives a few troubleshooting ideas, specifically if your boot freezes.I just wanted to add here that I added "acpi=off" at the end of the string as the guide states and it boots now. I had tried this earlier but did some tweaking in my bios settings regarding boot settings so I am not sure if this alone did this trick.

Last edited by sherrellbc (2014-11-27 04:29:10)

raggerv8

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Re: Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

Try adding

nomodeset

after the kernel line. Press the e key when you select what to boot and go to the end and write it.

Last edited by raggerv8 (2014-11-28 10:09:19)

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Rob_H

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Registered: 2012-06-19

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Re: Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

I ran into this yesterday on a new System76 rig with NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti video. Adding nomodeset to the kernel line solved it. Thanks!