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Schlunze

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[SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Hello,
after a fresh installation with archinstall on nvme ssd archlinux my hdd is not accesible. It dosent show /dev/sdax

Here is the output of lsblk

NAME        FSTYPE UUID                                 RO RM   SIZE STATE   OWNER GROUP MODE       TYPE MOUNTPOINT            LABEL PARTLABEL MODEL
sda                                                      0  1     0B running root  disk  brw-rw---- disk                                       STORAGE DEVICE
zram0                                                    0  0     4G         root  disk  brw-rw---- disk [SWAP]                                
nvme0n1                                                  0  0 931,5G live    root  disk  brw-rw---- disk                                       SanDisk Ultra 3D NVMe
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat   4BFF-40F5                             0  0   512M         root  disk  brw-rw---- part /boot                                 
└─nvme0n1p2 btrfs  6f6cfb02-f8c2-4ac2-84b1-1ee76eb30f0f  0  0   931G         root  disk  brw-rw---- part /var/cache/pacman/pkg                 

mkinitcpio.conf looks good to me

MODULES=(btrfs)
BINARIES=(/usr/bin/btrfs)
FILES=()
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect keyboard keymap modconf block filesystems fsck)

With gparted (in the dropdown menu) sda dont show up...

With the installation media /dev/sda1 is accessible

can someone help me?

greetings

Last edited by Schlunze (2024-01-05 15:03:06)

c00ter

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

You might try adding "resume" to HOOKS

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

This has nothing to do with the initramfs.

Schlunze, what does `fdisk -l /dev/sda` show you?

Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Hi,
@c00ter
adding module resume followed by

sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

changed nothing.

@Scimmina
output of sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda:

fdisk: /dev/sda kann nicht geöffnet werden: Kein Medium gefunden

fdisk: /dev/sda cannot be opened: No medium found

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Check the SSD's connectors and/or change the SATA cable if applicable.

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

@schard
nope sata cable looks good to me (hdd is mountable with installation media)
deleted wrong info - sorry

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

What does dmesg tell you about sda?
What does partprobe yield?

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

output of dmesg | grep sda:

[    3.565021] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Media removed, stopped polling
[    3.565823] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

output of partprobe -s

/dev/nvme0n1: gpt partitions 1 2
/dev/zram0: loop partitions 1

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d.ALT

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

- what if you load the on-disk bootloader's .efi executable from the ArchLinux Live EFI Shell?
    - please post here a dmesg or journalctl output

Do you have some sort of Intel VMD options inside UEFI Settings?

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

So the device is being ejected at some point.

# eject -t /dev/sda
# partprobe

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

- what if you load the on-disk bootloader's .efi executable from the ArchLinux Live EFI

can you point out how to archive this?

It is a cwwk n305 device with ami bios - i will check the bios settings.

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

i starting to think it is a missing bios option or bios issue. I will contact cwwk.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Maybe there's some build up to the ejection (bus errors) that hint at the cause.
Did you attempt https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2140671 ?

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

im not sure what to attempt?
Here is the link.
http://0x0.st/H6bT.txt
Thank you in advance

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d.ALT

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

im not sure what to attempt?
Here is the link.
http://0x0.st/H6bT.txt
Thank you in advance

So the device is being ejected at some point.

# eject -t /dev/sda
# partprobe

\\\

Also, did you try booting your bootloader's .efi executable from Live's UEFI Shell [UEFI Shell x86_64 v2]?

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 242)
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb 1-7: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device found, idVendor=05e3, idProduct=0751, bcdDevice=14.04
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb 1-7: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=4, SerialNumber=0
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb 1-7: Product: USB Storage
Jan 02 13:13:15 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb 1-7: Manufacturer: USB Storage
Jan 02 13:13:16 cwwk.ohs.lan mtp-probe[364]: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-7"
Jan 02 13:13:16 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: usb-storage 1-7:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
Jan 02 13:13:16 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: scsi host0: usb-storage 1-7:1.0
Jan 02 13:13:16 cwwk.ohs.lan mtp-probe[390]: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-7"
Jan 02 13:13:17 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   1404 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
Jan 02 13:13:17 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Media removed, stopped polling
Jan 02 13:13:17 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

What exactly is "sda"? Cause from the journal it looks like a Genesys Logic, Inc. microSD Card Reader and there's no trace of a sata device.
Did your hdd show up in the install iso?

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Did your hdd show up in the install iso?

They first said yes and now no (see the striked-through lines in previous posts).
My bets are still on the SATA cable.

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

That or the power cable or the drive is now living in a computer upstate…
There's no sata device in the posted journal.

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

At this point I'm wondering what (if) are the outputs of:

# ls -la /dev/mmc*

and

# lsusb

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

sorry @all

Jan 02 13:13:17 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Media removed, stopped polling
Jan 02 13:13:17 cwwk.ohs.lan kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

i don't know the command for uefi shell to boot my local efi.
what i did i checked devicetree / devices in EFISHELL.
It looks like my hdd is not recognized by the bios.

It is a bit of unusual hardware that came with a m2 expansion board. I dont use the expansion board and think that CWWK made different bioses for different variants (with expansion board/without).
Sadly i dont know how to flash a different bios on this device.
external link

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

Did your hdd show up in the install iso?

They first said yes and now no (see the striked-through lines in previous posts).
My bets are still on the SATA cable.

tested another cable - no luck

Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

That or the power cable or the drive is now living in a computer upstate…
There's no sata device in the posted journal.

tested another sata cable / power connection without success. The drive living in computer upstate
My bet - it is the bios.

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

It says

board with mSATA, M.2, and SATA connections that could be configured via switches

have you tried to configure it via switches?
Could the hdd bee underpowered? Do you have a sata ssd (that doesn't need a spin-up burst)?
Otoh there seems no card reader? Is it an external device? Did you try to strip the box of all other/expendable power consumers?

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Schlunze

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

It says

board with mSATA, M.2, and SATA connections that could be configured via switches

have you tried to configure it via switches?
Could the hdd bee underpowered? Do you have a sata ssd (that doesn't need a spin-up burst)?
Otoh there seems no card reader? Is it an external device? Did you try to strip the box of all other/expendable power consumers?

hdd underpowered - i tryed the following without luck:
--> tried the cwwk sata / power cable
--> tried with external power with another sata cable connected to the cwwk device.
--> switched hdd to sata ssd (without spin up burst)

the card reader is internal
--> tryed to flash bios without luck

Did you try to strip the box of all other/expendable power consumers?
--> yes

In detail here is the external link to my expansion board.
there are jumperson the mb sadly without description or manual

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Re: [SOLVED] fresh arch installation - /dev/sdax not visible (BIOS issue)

supports expansion of 2/3 M.2 NVMe x1 adapter boards.

It does not mention SATA at all, only M.2 NVMe.

Sanity check:
1) How many disks were built into your PC when you initially started the thread?
2) Is the problematic disk actually connected via a cable or via an M.2 slot?

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