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Mad Fish

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Installing Arch on external flash drive.

I've installed base system with pacman, enabled usb hook in mkinitcpio, and installed grub.
It boots, but then the error "Root device /dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxx doesn't exist" appears. UUID is correct, I've double checked.

Any ideas?..

lilsirecho

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Re: Installing Arch on external flash drive.

Recheck your grub settings....

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Mad Fish

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Re: Installing Arch on external flash drive.

Here how it looks (menu.lst on external flash drive)

title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/867695ca-dffa-49f8-b801-5b6108a50335 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

I guess external drive should be detected as hd1 (hd0 is internal).
867695ca-dffa-49f8-b801-5b6108a50335 is a UUID of flash drive.
Everything seems to be OK.

decaturguy

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Registered: 2006-11-28

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Re: Installing Arch on external flash drive.

Try adding rootdelay=10 to kernel parameter.

firecat53

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Re: Installing Arch on external flash drive.

Try changing to root=UUID=867695ca-dffa-49f8-b801-5b6108a50335 instead of root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/.........

And you might try hd(0,0) as well.....can't quite remember if I had to change that too...

Scott

Last edited by firecat53 (2010-01-15 00:12:59)

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