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hellome13

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Registered: 2011-07-30

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installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

I am trying to install Arch onto a flash drive, but after installing without a hitch and rebooting, grub cannot find the kernel and outputs something like
err(hd1,0) cannot find file
error 15

I can give the exact error message if needed

Last edited by hellome13 (2011-12-29 23:30:09)

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

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Re: installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

If you install grub on your flash drive (and arch is on the first partition of it) be sure that the "root" entry in your menu.cfg is (hd0,0), not (hd1,0)

lilsirecho

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Re: installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

Post exact error message please.

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jimbok

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Re: installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

Did you add 'usb' to the mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS line?

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hellome13

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Registered: 2011-07-30

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Re: installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

ok, changing hd1 to hd0 fixed my original problem (thanks matse). unfortunately, now it times out waiting for the flash drive and errors

ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sdb1'
and drops into a recovery shell

hellome13

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Re: installing onto a flash drive cannot find kernel [SOLVED]

and that was fixed by putting usb after udev in the mkinitcpio.conf hooks, thanks jimbok