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rvroom

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installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

Hello,

I tried to install on my asus eeebook (r209ha-df0015ts) but after the installation, it booted in the emergency mode. During the boot process it seems to fail by dev-by-disk.
I followed the installation guide and installed bootctl / systemdboot.
The specs of my laptop are:
intel atom x5 Z8300
2 GB of ram
32GB emmc storage

Could somebody help me to solve this problem?
And are there special installation steps for emmc storage devices?

Thanks,

Rico

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

Tell us about your partition scheme, whether it is EFI or BIOS, what boot loader did use, what is the configuration for that bootloader.....

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rvroom

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

It is a EFI computer. I used a GPT partition scheme. 265MiB fat32 boot partition. 25GiB ext4 partition for root. the remaining space, about 5 GiB ext4 for home. I used the systemdboot (bootctl)

boot files:

/boot/loader/loader.conf
default          arch
timeout         0
editor            0

/boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title           Arch Linux
linux          /vmlinuz-linux
initrd         /intel-ucode.img
initrd         /initramfs-linux.img
options      root=PARTUUID=(partuuid)   rw

ewaller

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

What is the output of lsblk?  (You may need to boot from the install media)
What are the contents of /boot/loader/loader.conf ?

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rvroom

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

lsblk gives:
sda
        sda1
        sda2
loop0
mmcblk0rpmb
mmcblk0boot0
mmcblk0boot1
mmcblk0
         mmcblk0p1
         mmcblk0p2
         mmcblk0p3

sda is my install usb and mmcblk0 is my disk where I installed the system.

/boot/loader/loader.conf
default           arch
timeout          0
editor             0

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

options      root=PARTUUID=(partuuid)   rw

That is not the actual line in the file, is it?   We have not even talked of UUIDs yet, so let's ignore them for a minute.
On mmcblk0, you've three partitions. You have not told us explicitly what they are. Implicitly I assume boot =1,root=2,home=3

You might try:

options      root=/dev/mmcblk0p2   rw

Adjust that if my assumptions are wrong.   

I don't know about booting from mmcblk0p1 -- Is it appropriate to have a boot partition, or is that the function of  mmcblk0boot0, mmcblk0boot1  ??  I'll leave that to someone else.

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

mmcblk0p1 is boot
mmcblk0p2 is root
mmcblk0p3 is home

I don t know what kind of devices mmcblk0boot0 and mmcblk0boot1 are. they are each 4M large

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

i didn t know the partuuid so i left it like (partuuid)

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

i didn t know the partuuid

Check the output of `blkid` -- the correct value should be added to the configuration file.

EDIT: from the ArchWiki page:

You can find the PARTUUID for your root partition with the command blkid -s PARTUUID -o value /dev/sdxY, where x is the device letter and Y is the partition number. This is required only for your root partition, not esp.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … ot_entries

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rvroom

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

The partuuid is not the problem. During the start job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-D53D\x2d7D71.device, this job times out (after 1.30 min), then it enters the emergency mode. I use systemdboot now. Should I use grub instead?

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

The partuuid is not the problem

Can we please confirm this objectively?

Please post the full content of /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf and the full output of:

# blkid

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rvroom

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

this are the results:

cat /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
title        Arch Linux
linux        /vmlinuz-linux
initrd        /intel-ucode.img
initrd        /initramfs-linux.img
options        root=PARTUUID=7d3adf30-7bc6-4444-bcd7-f31130691f99 rw

blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: UUID="FAD5-8EAA" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="6d6cda23-5b64-46a0-8a3b-ccee56944bbe"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="bb0b6f73-bfb2-4ada-843e-2fda60c6bd41" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7d3adf30-7bc6-4444-bcd7-f31130691f99"
/dev/mmcblk0p3: UUID="27f64607-926f-427e-bcc9-b7c8f6547b82" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="aa750aaa-96dd-43e9-a8c1-d75633e0b50a"

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

Is the kernel image & initramfs present on /dev/mmcblk0p1?

# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt && ls /mnt

Also, have you tried ewaller's suggestion to use "options root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw"?

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

this are the results of ls /boot
EFI
initramfs-linux-fallback.img
initramfs-linux.img
intel-ucode.img
loader
vmlinuz-linux

The kernel image and the initramfs image are present on /boot (/dev/mmcblk0p1) and using the suggestion using options root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw gives the same result. Should I try grub instead and see or that works?

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

this are the results of ls /boot

That is not what I asked for.

What is the output of `lsblk` before running `ls /boot`?

Is /boot mounted to /dev/mmcblk0p1 when `ls` is run?

The output of my suggested command would remove all ambiguity.

EDIT:

Are you sure that UEFI is enabled and that "CSM" or "Legacy" mode is disabled on your laptop?

What is the output of:

# efibootmgr -v

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rvroom

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Re: installation on asus eeebook (r209ha-fd0015ts)

On boot, /dev/mmcblk0p1 was not mounted, /boot was also not mounted. Then I found out that efibootmgr was not installed, so I installed it. Then I did a reboot and it booted normaly.

Thanks for your help,

Rico