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blah123213

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Registered: 2022-04-28

Posts: 19

Arch liveusb, file '/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux' not found

The error message says:

error: no such device ARCH202301...
error: file '/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux' not found
error: you need to load the kernel first

I have the liveusb mounted on my normal box, here is the output of tree -pufi

tree -pufi .
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  .
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/amd-ucode.img
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/intel-ucode.img
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/amd-ucode
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/amd-ucode/LICENSE.amd-ucode
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/intel-ucode
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/intel-ucode/LICENSE
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/memtest86+
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/licenses/memtest86+/license.txt
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/memtest
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/memtest.efi
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/boot/x86_64
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/x86_64/initramfs-linux.img
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/grubenv
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/pkglist.x86_64.txt
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/version
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./arch/x86_64
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs.cms.sig
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/x86_64/airootfs.sfs.sig
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./arch/x86_64/airootfs.sha512
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./[BOOT]
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./[BOOT]/1-Boot-NoEmul.img
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./[BOOT]/2-Boot-NoEmul.img
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./EFI
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./EFI/BOOT
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./EFI/BOOT/BOOTIA32.EFI
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./shellia32.efi
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./shellx64.efi
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./syslinux
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_head.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_pxe.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_pxe-linux.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_sys.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_sys-linux.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/archiso_tail.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/boot.cat
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cat.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/chain.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cmd.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cmenu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/config.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cptime.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cpu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cpuid.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/cpuidtest.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/debug.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/dhcp.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/dir.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/disk.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/dmi.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/dmitest.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/elf.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ethersel.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/gfxboot.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/gpxecmd.c32
[drwxr-xr-x joe     ]  ./syslinux/hdt
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/hdt/modalias.gz
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/hdt/pciids.gz
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/hdt.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/hexdump.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/host.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ifcpu64.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ifcpu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ifmemdsk.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ifplop.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/isohdpfx.bin
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/isolinux.bin
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/kbdmap.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/kontron_wdt.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ldlinux.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/lfs.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/libcom32.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/libgpl.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/liblua.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/libmenu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/libutil.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/linux.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/lpxelinux.0
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/ls.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/lua.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/mboot.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/memdisk
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/meminfo.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/menu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/pci.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/pcitest.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/pmload.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/poweroff.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/prdhcp.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/pwd.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/pxechn.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/reboot.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/rosh.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/sanboot.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/sdi.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/splash.png
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/sysdump.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/syslinux.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/syslinux.cfg
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/vesa.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/vesainfo.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/vesamenu.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/vpdtest.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/whichsys.c32
[-rw-r--r-- joe     ]  ./syslinux/zzjson.c32

I am unsure how to solve this beyond changing the permissions to 777 across the board but  since I have to use FAT32 for this (UEFI) I dont know if itll work right.

Let me know if anyone knows what the solution is.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Arch liveusb, file '/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux' not found

How exactly did you transfer the ISO image to the USB stick? Please provide the verbatim command(s).

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