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SzBence3

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Registered: 2026-01-12

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Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

I tried to install arch exactly as described on the arch wiki with grub. While booting arch I was shown the following Lines for a minute:

Loading Linux linux...
Loading initial ramdisk...

Then I saw the following error message on the screen

[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/.<some uuid>.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /sysroot.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Mountpoints Configured in the Real Root
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root Device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for File System .<the same uuid>.
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb " to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" or reboot to "exit"
to continue bootup.

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

Press Enter to continue.

I copied it with hand so there  might be some mistakes.
I'm on a Lenovo 300w Yoga Gen 4 laptop.
I have tried with archinstall before and I got a similiar message about not finding a device.
What should I do?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 72,816

Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

"<some uuid>" will be really important and you want to compare that to the output of "lsblk -f" from the install iso.

I copied it with hand so there  might be some mistakes.

Don't. Also because it's tedious.
From the running install iso you can

lsblk -f | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and post the url you get and for the failing boot rather link an image (you can upload a photo to imgur, make sure that the UUID is readable)

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squidie

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Registered: 2025-04-04

Posts: 8

Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

A device, likely mapped within `/etc/fstab` which is probably one of the partitions you created during install is not available for some reason. Match the device as per above post and then check.

SzBence3

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Registered: 2026-01-12

Posts: 2

Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

Here's the output of "lsblk -f"

NAME   FSTYPE   FSVER            LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0  squashfs 4.0                                                                     0   100% /run/archiso/airootfs
sda    iso9660  Joliet Extension ARCH_202601 2026-01-01-11-33-55-00                              
├─sda1 iso9660  Joliet Extension ARCH_202601 2026-01-01-11-33-55-00                     0   100% /run/archiso/bootmnt
└─sda2 vfat     FAT32            ARCHISO_EFI 6956-5BA3                                           
sdb                                                                                              
├─sdb1 vfat     FAT32                        6BDB-B270                             970.6M     5% /mnt/boot
├─sdb2 swap     1                            ce4516c1-6fe0-44d0-ae00-49999fb99b52                
└─sdb3 ext4     1.0                          6676c533-3a01-424c-a8af-c83f5f29812c    104G     2% /mnt

the fstab file is the following

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=6676c533-3a01-424c-a8af-c83f5f29812c	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=6BDB-B270      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/sdb2
UUID=ce4516c1-6fe0-44d0-ae00-49999fb99b52	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

and here's a picture about the error message https://imgur.com/a/oxykYBK

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,525

Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

Post your bootloader config. AFAIK, that stray '.' should not be there.

Erwin Iosef

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Registered: 2024-05-22

Posts: 101

Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

The first two 6's are also missing, if you're using grub, reinstall it and regenerate your config with /boot and / mounted correctly.