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readdeo

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Registered: 2017-12-16

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Physical Arch in vmware not finding its drive

Hi!

I am using Windows 10, Debian9 and Arch linux on my laptop. On Windows 10 i am trying to run my Arch installation with Vmware workstation.
In the virtual machine i set up in vmware, i added my Debian and Arch partition as HDD-s. I am using the Debian's grub. Debian9 is booting up without any problems in vmware. After selecting Arch linux, it can't find the drive: /dev/sda3 and boots into [rootfs].
In Debian while it is running from vmware, i can see and manage the Arch linux's partition on /dev/sda3.
I also tried with Manjaro and it could not find its disk's UUID.
I was googling for 3 days now and i can't find any answer. Do you have any suggestions about this problem?

WorMzy

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Re: Physical Arch in vmware not finding its drive

Arch optimises the default initrd at creation time for the hardware you are creating it on, stripping out any kernel modules which you don't need to boot. When you change the hardware (either physically replacing them, or switching to virtual hardware) there is a good chance that this default initrd doesn't have the modules required for this new hardware, so the boot process fails.

Try booting the fallback initrd, which contains all the available modules for the kernel you're booting.

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