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Hello everyone, I'm having some trouble installing Archlinux-2021 for a while now.
I actually managed to install it on a laptop with legacy bios, but got stuck when tried to install on my desktop pc (still with legacy bios).
While booting the system, it would recognize the drive and partitions correctly but couldn't get past the initial black screen with usual messages:
Starting version 249.5-1-arch
/dev/sdc3: clean, 254677/14131200 files, 3667385/56497558 blocks
...It simply keeps showing those messages for ages and doesn't proceed further.
What's weird is that I did manage to install and boot the system correctly on the laptop. I have also been able to use that desktop pc to boot the system installed on the laptop's SSD hard drive. And that worked too.
But when I took that same hard drive and plugged it in the desktop pc to install arch once again, following the same instructions (since the two computers are honestly the same), it never got past initial screen messages and was unable to successfully boot the system.
Here is my hardware.
Note --> obviously I used different graphics card drivers from generic (in the laptop) to nvidia (in the pc). That's the only difference between the two installation processes I attempted.
Laptop:
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: AO725 v: V2.01 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: ZA10_BZ v: Type2 - A01 Board Version serial: <filter>
UEFI [Legacy]: Insyde v: 2.01 date: 08/15/2012
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 0.1 Wh condition: 28.2/37.0 Wh (76%)
model: SANYO AL12B32 status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: AMD C-70 APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP arch: Bobcat L2 cache: 512 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 3992
Speed: 803 MHz min/max: 800/1000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 799
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Wrestler [Radeon HD 7290] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.4.0-26-generic LLVM 9.0.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 20.0.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Wrestler HDMI Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-26-genericDesktop PC:
Machine:
Type: N/A System: Olidata S.p.A. product: T4000 \ C4000 v: N/A
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Foxconn model: H67MP-S/-V/H67MP serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: A4BO2S01 date: 01/04/2012
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G620 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 10376
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1600/2600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1633
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV84 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Foxconn driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-37-generic
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 624.84 GiB used: 72.20 GiB (11.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT240BX500SSD1 size: 223.57 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: HD161HJ size: 149.05 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc model: SATA3 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiBHere are the instructions I followed based on the arch wiki... hope somebody can help!
loadkeys it
cfdisk /dev/sdc
## Partitions' Scheme:
## /dev/sdc1 - 50M, empty, bootable
## /dev/sda2 - 4G, Linux Swap
## /dev/sda3 - max-G, Linux
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc3
mkswap /dev/sdc2
mount /dev/sdc3 /mnt
swapon /dev/sdc2
reflector --verbose --country Italy --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware nano
genfstab -U -p /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
nano /etc/locale.gen
## uncommented it_IT.UTF-8 UTF-8
locale-gen
echo LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
nano /etc/vconsole.conf
[ added
KEYMAP=it
EDITOR=nano
]
export EDITOR=nano
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome
hwclock --systohc --utc
echo "my-name" > /etc/hostname
pacman -S net-tools dhcpcd netctl
systemctl enable dhcpcd
pacman -S iwd wpa_supplicant wireless_tools dialog iw
systemctl enable iwd
passwd
useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash my-name
passwd my-name
pacman -S grub
pacman -S os-prober
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdc
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
reboot
su -
pacman -S alsa-utils
pacman -S nvidia
pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit
pacman -S plasma kde-applications xdg-user-dirs sddm
systemctl enable sddm
pacman -S networkmanager
systemctl enable NetworkManager
systemctl disable dhcpcd
pacman -S pipewire-pulse
rebootLast edited by ordinary.schreiber (2021-10-17 22:35:23)
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Welcome to the forum. Please edit your post and use [ code ] tags (not quote tags) when posting output. This makes the output easier to read and provides a scroll box for long output.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code
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Thank you for the advice, just edited the post as you suggested.
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I did some progress, once again, I'm using KDE Plasma with Xorg in Legacy BIOS mode.
I tried removing the nvidia graphics card and using the ones integrated in the cpu.
I installed the generic xf86-video-vesa drivers and I was able to install and launch "successfully" the system.
With generic drivers I was able to open the KDE welcome screen but then the image crashed, even after reboting a couple of times.
I tried reinserting the nvidia graphics card still booting with xf86-video-vesa drivers. This time it didn't even get to the welcome screen and the image crashed on the inital messages:
Starting version 249.5-1-arch
/dev/sdc3: clean, 254677/14131200 files, 3667385/56497558 blocks
...It seems the problem is related to the video drivers or the graphics card itself, but I can't figure out what to do to make it boot.
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Ok, it was easier than expected. Turns out I was using the wrong video drivers.
Solved by installing:
mesa
lib32-mesa
xf86-video-nouveau
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