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New installation following wiki. Lenovo Thinkpad x230 up and running very well out of the box.
Just added a Thinkpad dock type 4337
When first running up into Gnome3 and then docked system full docking station functionality & dual-head.
If rebooted or booted cold in the dock the boot hangs at "Loading initial Ramdisk"
Appreciate this could be hardware issue, however I suspect it could be a simpler newbie issue.
Setup - standard Arch with:
Gnome3/GDM
dm-crypt - LVM on LUKS
Thanks for your time, really appreciated.
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Could potentially be graphics related, as that dock has video output.
Does it work if you use the fallback initramfs? (under "Advanced options for Arch Linux" in the grub menu)
Might be worth editing the kernel command line (in the grub menu, by pressing "e") to remove "quiet" and add "nomodeset".
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Thanks for the support Archelous
Fallback initramfs proceeds no further than standard boot. I assume that (unfortunately) prevents me trying your kernel commandline change - although I'll try that too.
More accurately it seems to get stuck at:
"Starting version 235" the underscore/dash stops blinking as per normal boot and the x230 battery LED flashes orange. Potentially h/w or insufficient power source? Will try and find a >90W source in the next week or so.
In case it's related to temporary display issue preventing me from seeing the crypt prompt for LUKS passphrase I'm going to try setting up a keyfile on SDcard.
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The kernel command line is changed from the grub menu, so you should be able to do it. If "nomodeset" allows you to get further through the boot process, then it's likely a graphics issue.
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Edit: Bigger progress - not sure if this deserves a solved yet but, I finally got the LUKS keyfile from sdcard for my encrypted root partition to work (therefore no keyboard input prompt). The system now boots through to GDM / Gnome 3 perfectly.
There's still a gap in that if I want to boot without the keyfile I'll have to undock but that's more than useable enough for me.
Notes on kernel options:
Removing quiet and adding nomodeset allows me to get to the LUKS passphrase prompt and beyond. USB keyboard on dock not functional, laptop keyboard works fine.
Some systemd ouput follows until:
[OK] Reached target Graphical Interface
blinking cursor and no further progress.
Thank you for your help - I'm enjoying this community already!
Last edited by gravelroach (2017-12-16 16:34:17)
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