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Nhanderu

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[SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

The whole output is:

[    0.250649] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.S
WUS], AE_NOT_FOUND (20201113/dswload2-162)
[    0.250667] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20201113/ps
object-220)
[    0.250674] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\_SB.PCI0.GPP0.S
WUS.SWDS], AE_NOT_FOUND (20201113/dswload2-162)
[    0.250679] ACPI Error: AE_NOT_FOUND, During name lookup/catalog (20201113/ps
object-220)
:: running early hook [udev]
Starting version 248-5-arch
:: running early hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
[    5.383904] kfd kfd: TOPAZ  not supported in kfd
:: running hook [memdisk]
:: running hook [archiso]
:: running hook [archiso_loop_mnt]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_common]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_http]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_nfs
:: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202105' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202105 ...
[    6.990878] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
[    6.990910] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
:: Device '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202105' mounted successfully.
:: Mounting /run/archiso/cowspace (tmpfs) filesystem, size=256M...
:: Mounting '/dev/loop0' to '/run/archiso/airootfs'
:: Device '/dev/loop0' mounted successfully.
:: running late hook [archiso_pxe_common]
:: running cleanup hook [archiso_shutdown]
:: running cleanup hook [udev]

Welcome to Arch Linux!

... and then the cursor stops blinking and everything freezes. I can't (or just don't know how to) execute any command beyond that, so I can't give any more info about it. That's all I got.

I'm using a bootable pen-drive with 2021-05 Arch, but I also tried with 2021-04. The PC is a Ryzen 7 3700U + Radeon RX Vega 10. Would any other info be helpful?

Even though I've been using Arch as my main drive for some months now in a different notebook, my knowledge about it is still pretty shallow. I searched some keywords and I found some similar ACPI BIOS errors, but all with different symbols and being related to booting an already installed system.

Any advice/help?

Edit: solved.

Last edited by Nhanderu (2021-05-03 15:26:38)

Tesla23

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Are you able to use that specific installation media on the notebook?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Is this the netboot image?

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Nhanderu

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Are you able to use that specific installation media on the notebook?

Yes! Actually, I tried the installation in different computers with the same media and everything worked flawlessly, it didn't freeze at the welcome message and didn't show any ACPI errors.

Is this the netboot image?

No, it isn't.

Thank you.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Can you boot the iso passing "nomodeset" to the kernel paramters?

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Nhanderu

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Can you boot the iso passing "nomodeset" to the kernel paramters?

Correct me if I did it wrong, but following this post, I pressed E in the GRUB menu, added "nomodeset" at the end of the parameters, and pressed enter.

The errors and the output were the same as before.

Thank you.

Edit: typo.

Last edited by Nhanderu (2021-05-03 13:00:22)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

Remove the quiet parameter (if it's there) and add some debug output along nomodeset.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … bug_output

Also just violently type the keyboard to generate some input in case it's entropy starvation.

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Nhanderu

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Re: [SOLVED] Installation freezes at "Welcome to Arch Linux!"

It seems to be solved!

Ok, so first, I added "debug", and the whole kernel command line became the following:

initrd=\arch\boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=\arch\boot\amd-ucode.img initrd=\arch\boot\x86_64\initramfs-linux.img archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_202105 nomodeset debug

Lots of new messages, but the last one seemed strange:

[   41.071734] nvme nvme0: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff, PCI_STATUS=0xffff

I searched for it and this post helped me up. The final kernel command line became:

initrd=\arch\boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=\arch\boot\amd-ucode.img initrd=\arch\boot\x86_64\initramfs-linux.img archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_202105 nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=500

And it worked!

Thank you both seth and Tesla123 for your time and help.