[RESOLVED] Systemd-boot help?

dubbad · 2015-07-13 23:47:34

Hello all-

I'm very close to my first successful install of Arch. I've been going through the Beginner's Guide very carefully and things have been going pretty smoothly for my EFI system. There seems to be one final obstacle between me and booting into Arch without the live media. When my computer turns on, I'm greeted by a menu with my boot options. The timeout is the correct value (the one that I set in loader.conf). However, when I select Arch Linux from the menu (the default option), I get this:

Error loading \vmlinuz-linux: Not Found
Failed to execute Arch Linux (\vmlinuz-linux): Not Found

Does anyone know what's happening? I followed the guide line by line and I couldn't figure out what I'd missed. If it helps, here's my HDD setup:

/dev/sda
|-sda1 esp
|-sda5 root
|-sda6 home

Parts 2-4 are windows, which I can still boot into.
Please let me know if there are any other details I can provide which would be helpful.

Thanks!

Last edited by dubbad (2015-07-14 02:26:25)

jasonwryan · 2015-07-13 23:54:30

Please post your loader config and the output of `tree /boot`...

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:07:53

#nano /boot/loader/loader.conf

timeout 10
default arch
# default 0abdbbe8a94a4c31865f4b5fe68bd080-*

After installing tree:
#tree /boot > file.txt
#nano file.txt

/boot
EFI
Boot
BOOTX64.EFI
Microsoft
Boot
...
systemd
systemd-bootx64.efi
en-us
bootmgr.efi.mui

There were a dozen or so folders in Microsoft/ with different locales, each one containing a bootmgfw.efi.mui, bootmgr.efi.mui, and memtest.efi.mui.

EDIT: Left off some stuff. Under en-us inside EFI/

loader
entries
arch.conf
loader.conf
System Volume Information
IndexerVolumeGuid

Last edited by dubbad (2015-07-14 00:09:31)

jasonwryan · 2015-07-14 00:16:17

Sorry: please include arch.conf...

You can just paste the output into code brackets: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:19:32

Try this to reinstall the linux kernel:

pacman -S linux

If that doesn't work try this:

mkinitcpio -p linux

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:21:37

# nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=PARTUUID=ed27c1d8-5d35-4f92-a0ef-7798b7e40449 rw

EDIT: reinstalling linux now. I'll keep you posted. Also, how exactly is it that you get things to show as code?

EDIT 2: I can now boot into Arch w/o live media, however, it puts me straight into emergency mode. I see Failed to Mount Remount Root (or something like that, it was gone in a flash) and failed to mount /home. Thoughts?

Last edited by dubbad (2015-07-14 00:29:21)

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:25:44

dubbad wrote:

# nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=PARTUUID=ed27c1d8-5d35-4f92-a0ef-7798b7e40449 rw
EDIT: reinstalling linux now. I'll keep you posted. Also, how exactly is it that you get things to show as code?

To post as code you need to put in these tags:

[code]Your code here[/code]

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:31:59

So like I mentioned in EDIT2 I think the main deal is that the partitions aren't remounting properly. On the line before

[FAILED]Failed to mount /home

I see

[   8.511987] EXT4-fs (sda6): Unrecognized mount option "0" or missing value

sda6 is the one I had mounted to /mnt/home during installation.

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:33:03

dubbad wrote:

EDIT 2: I can now boot into Arch w/o live media, however, it puts me straight into emergency mode. I see Failed to Mount Remount Root (or something like that, it was gone in a flash) and failed to mount /home. Thoughts?

Can you give us the contents of /etc/fstab?

jasonwryan · 2015-07-14 00:36:11

Your path in arch.conf is incorrect, according to your directory setup and--as the wiki notes--relative to your ESP.

You pasted a truncated tree output, so it is not clear but it looks like you have your ESP at /boot/EFI, so something like \EFI\arch\vmlinuz-linux

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:37:43

# nano /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options>        <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda5
UUID=e32...                                  /                 ext4                                    0 1

# /dev/sda6
UUID=ee5...                                  /home             ext4                                    0 2

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:40:29

jasonwryan wrote:

Your path in arch.conf is incorrect, according to your directory setup and--as the wiki notes--relative to your ESP.
You pasted a truncated tree output, so it is not clear but it looks like you have your ESP at /boot/EFI, so something like \EFI\arch\vmlinuz-linux

After reinstalling the linux kernel my /boot now looks like this:

/boot
    initramfs-linux-fallback.img
    initramfs-linux.img
    vmlinuz-linux

0 directories, 3 files

jasonwryan · 2015-07-14 00:41:24

Where are your ESP files?

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:45:06

jasonwryan wrote:

Where are your ESP files?

I'm not sure, though parted still shows my boot partition (sda1) as having the boot and esp flags if that helps.

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:46:50

dubbad wrote:

# nano /etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options>        <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda5
UUID=e32...                                  /                 ext4                                    0 1

# /dev/sda6
UUID=ee5...                                  /home             ext4                                    0 2

Your fstab is wrong.

Past this:

rw,relatime,data=ordered

between ext4 and 01 and 02

For example this is mine:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# /dev/sda4
UUID=cc...       /               ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered                                                                                0 1

# /dev/sda7
UUID=4c...       /home           ext4            rw,relatime,data=ordered                                                                                0 2

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:47:58

jasonwryan wrote:

Where are your ESP files?

His ESP files are fine, for whatever reason the linux kernel was not in /boot. Now it is, so that is why he can boot. Now he has a problem with fstab.

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:50:10

I recognize that line from running `mount` to check my mounts during installation. Unfortunately, I'm still booting into emergency mode with the same "Failed to mount" errors.

jasonwryan · 2015-07-14 00:50:43

Chris Cromer wrote:

jasonwryan wrote:
Where are your ESP files?
His ESP files are fine, for whatever reason the linux kernel was not in /boot. Now it is, so that is why he can boot. Now he has a problem with fstab.

According to his last paste, there are a total of 3 files in /boot. And, yes, his fstab is broken as well.

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:56:06

jasonwryan wrote:

Chris Cromer wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:
Where are your ESP files?
His ESP files are fine, for whatever reason the linux kernel was not in /boot. Now it is, so that is why he can boot. Now he has a problem with fstab.
According to his last paste, there are a total of 3 files in /boot. And, yes, his fstab is broken as well.

It boots now he says, which means that the ESP files are there even though he didn't post them in his last post.

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 00:57:07

dubbad wrote:

I recognize that line from running `mount` to check my mounts during installation. Unfortunately, I'm still booting into emergency mode with the same "Failed to mount" errors.

Did you fix fstab like I mentioned before? The error you posted was an fstab error.

dubbad · 2015-07-14 00:58:35

Yes I did.

rw,realtime,data=ordered

is now included under <pass> for sda5 and sda6.

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 01:00:31

dubbad wrote:

Yes I did.
rw,realtime,data=ordered
is now included under <pass> for sda5 and sda6.

Is the error the same, or did it change? Because before it the error was on "0" in fstab.

dubbad · 2015-07-14 01:02:10

Chris Cromer wrote:

Is the error the same, or did it change? Because before it the error was on "0" in fstab.

Yes, it's the same error. "Failed to mount /home"

Chris Cromer · 2015-07-14 01:06:28

dubbad wrote:

Chris Cromer wrote:
Is the error the same, or did it change? Because before it the error was on "0" in fstab.
Yes, it's the same error. "Failed to mount /home"

Before you told me this:

[   8.511987] EXT4-fs (sda6): Unrecognized mount option "0" or missing value

Does it still say this? Or something new?

dubbad · 2015-07-14 01:08:07

That line is gone. It now goes from

Mounting /home...

to

[FAILED]Failed to mount /home

So I suppose it is a little different now.

Arch Linux

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