Arch Linux

piercethequinn

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Registered: 2023-10-31

Posts: 1

Install on UFS system?

I have an HP laptop that uses UFS for storage for some ungodly reason and can't get arch to boot after an install. Everything installs just fine and with no hiccups, but when I try to boot, it kicks me to rootfs without tty.

blkid

shows no output unless my installation media is plugged in. I've looked into it, and I've only found that UFS isn't supported in linux unless you compile your own kernel, but that doesn't seem to be the case as the live iso can read and write to the drive just fine.
Would I actually need to compile a custom kernel, or could there be something else at play here that I just can't seem to find?

astralc

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Registered: 2022-09-17

Posts: 127

Re: Install on UFS system?

did you try with fallback initramfs?

the kernel in archiso is the same kernel as the installed (the `linux` package - installed may be newer version), if it detected there, it will be detected on you system.
initramfs may missing a module in the autodetect version, assuming it was built correctly.