INSTALL-BTRFS+GPT+EFI => ERROR : specified kernel image does not exist

Altheran · 2018-09-09 17:38:23

So, 1st, not only am I an Arch noob, Im a Linux noob ! XD

I figured, the fastest way to swim is to jump and hope the survival reflexes kick in !

Like, prior to tinkering a bit yesterday, I knew SUPER basics like, sudo, ls, cd, nano .... and thats about it.
So please be kind, I suppose at some point with usage i'll get somewhere respectable, but for now, many concepts are alien to me.

I did try a search on the forums with "btrfs gpt efi", to no useful results ...

And as for the Wiki, very detailed, tells you what you need to do, but I think it assumes you have some bases and every thing is quite modular and is now quite connected between each other ...

As i like to tell, the best tool UX/UI doesnt require any prior experience of training

My end-goal is to have the bestest leanest most efficient and snappy Linux machine to run Steam Proton, Lutris, discord and my general web browsing. ( Gamer plebs right ?)

I absolutely love the look of Budgie ! So that's gonna be the DE or look I'm aiming for.

I'll want all the quality of like thingies like :

-Calendar, calculator, Office suite, gimp, image viewer and editor, vlc, spotify, chromium, network/wifi panel in the taskbar, vpn client like openvpn and/or wireguard, file manage (is dolphin the best?), a pacman package manager to have a nice GUI to update the system and apps and that also gives acces to AUR (Yaourt?)

Ideally, I want the initial install the almost only interaction Ill ever have again with the Terminal XD
(Yeah yeah , noob pleb ... whatever, I like to tinker to make thing work, but once it work, I want it dumb simple)

So I'm learning in VirtualBox (ain't as crazy as to just wipe my PC ... before being sure I an build a working OS XD)

Im trying to install arch-linux with BTRFS over GPT on EFI (I activated the EFI option on virtual box)

SO, I couldn't find an all-in up-to-date command line by command line guide for this perticular scenario.

I always end-up stuck on :

mkinitcpio -p linux [enter]

ERROR : specified kernel image does not exist: '/bootvmlinuz-linux'

So here STEP by STEP what I did :

VirtualBox Settings modifications :

2048M system memory

Enable EFI checked

Processor 2 Cores

PAE/NX Enabled

Video Memory maxed @128M

Checked the Solid State Drive Checkbox in my .vdi settings (Host Drive is an SSD) .vdi = 24GB

Start Machine (Black screen after boot selection for a while, doesnt happen in BIOS mode, then Arch does his [OK] thingies) then gets to root@archiso

/*checking internet*/

ping -c 3 google.com [enter] => all is fine

/*update packages*/

pacman -Syy [enter]

/*create GPT partitions, create EFI boot, create Swap partition, create root partition*/

gdisk /dev/sda [enter]

o [enter] y [enter]

n [enter] [enter] [enter] +512M [enter] EF00 [enter] /*sda1*/

n [enter] [enter] [enter] +4G [enter] 8200 [enter] /*sda2*/

n [enter] [enter] [enter] [enter] [enter] /*sda3*/

w [enter] y [enter]

/*create btrfs filesystem, mount and create subvolumes*/

mkfs.btrfs -L arch /dev/sda3 [enter]

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt [enter]

cd /mnt [enter]

btrfs subvolume create _active [enter]

btrfs subvolume create _active/rootvol [enter]

btrfs subvolume create _active/tmp [enter]

btrfs subvolume create _snapshots [enter]

cd [enter]

/*create fat filesystem for the EFI boot, wasnt in the guide i followed, but if not done, mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot would not work ...*/

mkfs.vfat -F32 -n "EFI" /dev/sda1 [enter]

/*create swap ?*/

mkswap -L swap /dev/sda2 [enter]

umount /mnt [enter]

mount -o subvol=_active/rootvol /dev/sda3 /mnt [enter]

mkdir /mnt/{home,tmp,boot} [enter]

mount -o subvol=_active/tmp /dev/sda3 /mnt/tmp [enter]

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot [enter]

/*download the install packages*/

pacstrap /mnt base base-devel btrfs-progs [enter]

/*not sure what fstab does, but doing the fstab thingie*/

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab [enter]

genfstab -U /mnt/boot >> /mnt/etc/fstab [enter]

/*did that to have something looking like my guide, then manually edited in the /dev/sda2 swap

Somewhat, mine had the LABEL=* and the UUID=* for each filesystem instead of just the LABEL like in the guide. */

# Satic information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

# /dev/sda3 LABEL=arch
UUID=ce32ee04-030d-4319-ba5b-f0508362291d / btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/_active/rootvol,subvol=/_active/rootvol 0 0

# /dev/sda3 LABEL=arch
UUID=ce32ee04-030d-4319-ba5b-f0508362291d /tmp btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=259,subvol=/_active/tmp,subvol=/_active/tmp 0 0

# /dev/sda1 LABEL=EFI
UUID=9FB8-625F /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2

# /dev/sda2 LABEL=swap
UUID=4c2a087e-f22e-423a-8313-2ac5a09d06f0 none swap defaults 0 0
*/rooting "in the /mnt environment?'ish?*/

arch-chroot /mnt [enter]

/*setting locales*/

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Montreal /etc/localtime [enter]

hwclock --systohc [enter]

nano /etc/locale.gen [enter]

/* uncomment (remove #) en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 [ctrl+x] y [enter]*/

locale-gen [enter]

nano /etc/locale.conf [enter] /* add LANG=en_US.UTF-8 [ctrl+x] y [enter]*/

/*setting host stuff*/

echo myhostname > /etc/hostname [enter]

nano /etc/hosts [enter]

# Static table lookup for hostnames
# See hosts(5) for details.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname.localdomain myhostname
[ctrl+x] y [enter]

--Big Edit to follow up and keep clean--

passwd [enter] type password [enter] retype [enter]

/* Creating a new initramfs */

nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf /*Remove fsck and add btrfs to HOOKS [ctrl+x] y [enter]

mkinitcpio -p linux [enter] /* BINGO !!!! */

/*bootloader*/

bootctl install [enter]

nano /boot/loader/loader.conf [enter]

timeout 3
default arch-btrfs
editor 0
[ctrl+x] y [enter]

/*microcode package*/

/* !!! IF NOT IN VIRTUALBOX !!! */

pacman -S intel-ucode (if intel cpu)

pacman -S amd-ucode (if AMD cpu)

/*btrfs loader config file*/

nano /boot/loader/entries/arch-btrfs.conf

/* use the appropriate # ucode.img, remove the # and delete the other, if VBOX, NONE */

title Arch Linux
linux /vmlinuz-linux
#initrd /intel-ucode.img
#initrd /amd-ucode.img
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
options root=LABEL=arch rw rootflags=subvol=_active/rootvol
root=LABEL=arch reference the "mkfs.btrfs -L arch /dev/sda3 [enter]" commande at the beginning. -L puts a label on the filesystem, and the one specified here was "arch", if not "arch" use the right label in root=LABEL=xxxx.

/* install Network Manager*/

pacman -S networkmanager [enter] y [enter]

systemctl enable NetworkManager [enter]

/*we are done in chroot for now*/

exit [enter]

umount -R /mnt [enter]

reboot [enter]

.....

FUUUUUUUUU

::running early hook [udev]
starting version 239
::running hook [udev]
::Triggering uevent...
::running hook [btrfs]
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems
:mounting 'LABEL-arch' on real boot
mount: /new_root: special device LABEL-arch does not exist.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: cant't acces tty; job control turned off
did made a Typo in my arch-btrfs.conf ? Like I put a "-" instead of a "=" between LABEL and arch ... ?

How the hell do I go back to fix it??

arch-chroot /mnt [enter]

sh: arch-root: not found

cd /mnt

sh: cd: can't cd to /mnt: No such file or directory

So now we are here

I need a command by command help, I haven't ingested the "concepts" enough yet to just take instructions
Hell, for learning to fish stake, if you give explanations on what does what with the commands, that would be even better !

I am quite ok with just restarting the whole thing from the start if it keep things simple and can be used in the future as a full guide

And if any charitable soul could continue this "command line by command line" guide to help me finish till the end, that would be super awesome !! ^_^

*A, I hope, long term Arch user !

Last edited by Altheran (2018-09-10 01:16:41)

ua4000 · 2018-09-09 18:14:03

mkinitcpio has to be run inside the chroot, you did an exit before.

loqs · 2018-09-09 18:15:06

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab [enter]
genfstab -U /mnt/boot >> /mnt/etc/fstab [enter]

The second command should have produced a broken fstab but the fstab you posted seems reasonable.
exit the chroot then what is the output of

findmnt /mnt/boot
findmnt /mnt
ls /mnt/boot

Altheran · 2018-09-09 23:45:21

ua4000 wrote:

mkinitcpio has to be run inside the chroot, you did an exit before.

Duuuuuuuuuuh XD So close !!!

And yeah as for the fstab, I edited the whole thing to have something sane ...
But without the 2nd fstab on /mnt/boot, there was no entry for the boot filesystem ...

Well, I'll try all of this again and get back with the result !

Thanks

jasonwryan · 2018-09-10 00:11:50

Please use code tags when pasting to tha boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Altheran · 2018-09-10 01:21:03

jasonwryan wrote:

Please use code tags when pasting to tha boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

mmmk ... still not super sure how to use it ...

I paste the bunch of text in a pastebin client?, then what ?

Will it create a hidable textbox in my post ?

Altheran · 2018-09-10 01:22:14

So I edited my post to get to where I am at.

(Will fix everything with some pastebin stuff as soon as I figure out how it works )

jasonwryan · 2018-09-10 01:26:56

Just click the BBCode link at the bottom left of every text box.

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INSTALL-BTRFS+GPT+EFI => ERROR : specified kernel image does not exist

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