Getting Arch running on Lenovo Miix 3 (experiencing kernel issues.....

dabamti · 2015-09-01 14:07:02

So I'm trying to get Arch running on Lenovo Miix 3 but I haven't gone a long way.

What I did so far:

1. Formatted a USB drive with an MBR partition table and FAT32.
2. Put Arch dual .iso on it.
3. Downloaded bootia32.efi from github and mv to /EFI/BOOT/.
4. Disabled secure boot on the tablet.
5. This got me a grub prompt.
6. Then I manually typed in the linux and initrd lines and booted Arch....
7. Problem *** The keyboard dies at this point so I cannot really do anything.

So that's my main problem for now. The keyboard works in grub but for some reason it does not work once the OS boots.

I also tried some other GNU+Linux distros including Ubuntu 14.04 and 12.10 and 15.04 and 15.10 just to figure out if the keyboard works with any of those but it does not.
The touchscreen and touch pad work without problem though.

So where do I go from here?

BTW I don't have a USB keyboard at my disposable right now, otherwise I'd have tried to see if that works.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-01 14:25:15

I think you may need to load some extra modules; see this guide:
http://www.normalesup.org/~george/comp/ … miix3/#s_4

dabamti · 2015-09-01 14:29:16

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I think you may need to load some extra modules; see this guide:
http://www.normalesup.org/~george/comp/ … miix3/#s_4

OK, I've already read that page but I could not get much out of it. How do I load the extra modules? Do I use "insmod" in grub or what?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-01 14:42:46

I've never tried it myself but I think you just run the two commands listed in your normal shell; the first command defines an array called "m" with the given content and the second command creates a file at /tmp/grubia32.efi which can be added to /EFI/BOOT

dabamti · 2015-09-01 15:07:28

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I've never tried it myself but I think you just run the two commands listed in your normal shell; the first command defines an array called "m" with the given content and the second command creates a file at /tmp/grubia32.efi which can be added to /EFI/BOOT

I just tried that.

First time round I let the file named as grubia32.efi and the USB wasn't detected as a bootable image.

Second time round I renamed it to bootia32.efi and then I got an error:

error: variable 'root' isn't set.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue>

and it threw me into grub rescue prompt.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-01 16:18:28

I really am just guessing here but did you:

Copy manually the modules in boot/grub/i386-efi/

dabamti · 2015-09-01 16:29:43

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

I really am just guessing here but did you:
Copy manually the modules in boot/grub/i386-efi/

What I did was create the following path:

/EFI/boot/grub/i386-efi/

and the I copied all the modules from my current desktop installation to it.

Not sure if that is what I should have done?

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Getting Arch running on Lenovo Miix 3 (experiencing kernel issues.....

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