HELP!! Mainboard changed - Arch wont boot :(

Xi0N · 2009-07-27 18:20:59

I had some issues with the old motherboard, so, i changed it, and now (as was expected) i cannot boot into arch.....
Fallback aso does not work.... is there any way to fix the current instalation and ake it work with the new motherboard?

I have 2 disk... 1 SATA one with /boot /home and other ide one that i use only for storing my music ibrary,,,,,

I need help!!

EDIT:

I get to see the GRUB menu... the partitions are

/ : ext4
/boot : ext2
/home : ext4

I unplugged the IDE drive for trying to make the system less confused,.. now i only have the SATA drive...

I get this error:

Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0rimc20mcr03irmc03imcr3irm032crmi23mirc03' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device ids for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0rimc20mcr03irmc03imcr3irm032crmi23mirc03'
ERROR: Unable to detect or create root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0rimc20mcr03irmc03imcr3irm032crmi23mirc03'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Tyoe reboot to reboot
Type exit ti try and continue booting
NOTE: klibc contains no ls binary, use echo * instead
If the device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/c0rimc20mcr03irmc03imcr3irm032crmi23mirc03' gets created while you are here,
try adding 'rootdelay=10' or higher to the kernel command line
ramfs$_

What can i do? :(

Last edited by Xi0N (2009-07-27 18:30:18)

.:B:. · 2009-07-27 19:22:54

Other motherboard = other hardware = other drivers = other ramdisk.

Boot from the installation CD, chroot into your installation and fix it. You should have taken care of this before you booted your system with the new mainboard .

Xi0N · 2009-07-27 19:25:18

Reinstalled... faster imho and would give me less problems... sure....

By the way... what happened to hwd??? i was used to install it and run hwd -xa ... but it looks like is not available anymore......

Runiq · 2009-07-27 19:29:06

B wrote:

Other motherboard = other hardware = other drivers = other ramdisk.
Boot from the installation CD, chroot into your installation and fix it. You should have taken care of this before you booted your system with the new mainboard .

How is this possible without actually replacing the old mainboard? Does he just need to use the standard hooks?

rayjgu3 · 2009-07-27 20:44:15

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reinstalling_GRUB
<< youll want those directions to follow when chrooting into system

more than likely youll need to adjust "ramdisk" =initrd or in arch terms /boot/kernel26.img
tweak your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf boot install cd & see what modules got loaded "lsmod" will tell you write down all sata modules & put them in module section of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf see this page for help
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … mkinitcpio

does bios setup look to boot ide drive 1st or sata & which hook is 1st in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf sata is before ide hopefully(but shouldnt be a concern since your using uuid)
did you try adding 'rootdelay=10' or higher to the kernel command line as suggested to you when dropped into ramfs$

Xi0N · 2009-07-27 20:54:38

Weird: Now, after installing everything, and making all work just great, i shutted th emachine down, plugged the IDE drive and booted up.... the system gets blocked and i cannot do anything... why can this be?

That disk has an ext4 partition on it.... and is 80 Gb big....

.:B:. · 2009-07-27 21:30:59

Runiq wrote:

B wrote:
Other motherboard = other hardware = other drivers = other ramdisk.
Boot from the installation CD, chroot into your installation and fix it. You should have taken care of this before you booted your system with the new mainboard .
How is this possible without actually replacing the old mainboard? Does he just need to use the standard hooks?

It involves tinkering - knowing what drivers you'll need and specifying them in mkinitcpio.conf. All he needs to know is his IDE/ATA driver(s), that's pretty much it.

rayjgu3 · 2009-07-27 22:33:43

Xi0N wrote:

Weird: Now, after installing everything, and making all work just great, i shutted th emachine down, plugged the IDE drive and booted up.... the system gets blocked and i cannot do anything... why can this be?
That disk has an ext4 partition on it.... and is 80 Gb big....

what is getting recognized 1st in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

whats this section look like
MODULES="sata_via ext3" <this is mine
or this section

HOOKS="base udev sata" <mine

if you have any ide stuff in there take it out this could be your problem

Xi0N · 2009-07-27 23:04:26

Wrong master/slave setup... now it is fixed.........

Thanks anyway... now i am thinking about how to do in fstab to make that partition permanently mounted under /media/music......

brain0 · 2009-07-28 11:36:12

Last time I did this, I booted with the fallback initrd ONCE, then ran "mkinitcpio -p kernel26" and everything worked from there. That should work, provided you have a mkinitcpio configuration that is not too optimized.

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#1 2009-07-27 18:20:59

HELP!! Mainboard changed - Arch wont boot :(

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