Arch Linux

manish411

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 15

installing arch linux on a flash drive.

I have installed arch linux on a flash drive. The flash drive is divided into 4 partitions as

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         100      102384   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             101         356      262144   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3             357        1533     1205248   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            1534        1926      402432   83  Linux

utkarsh@utkarsh-laptop:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="edc30674-5e24-46ae-865c-647b5af6a1ca" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="8045e664-17ad-4bfd-8b5e-56d7f17fbcdd" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="6900b21c-e694-446c-b6fb-cf24853e0d3a" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="eca916eb-d95c-4553-81e9-2ba6ae41e3bc" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb3: UUID="d79c9e51-45cd-4c19-b41d-db73a9e1be87" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdb4: UUID="2ffcb236-558e-43a9-b16b-bfa3c38b34e9" TYPE="ext3" 
utkarsh@utkarsh-laptop:~$ 

and the content of fstab looks like

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid	0	0
UUID=2ffcb236-558e-43a9-b16b-bfa3c38b34e9 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=6900b21c-e694-446c-b6fb-cf24853e0d3a /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=d79c9e51-45cd-4c19-b41d-db73a9e1be87 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=eca916eb-d95c-4553-81e9-2ba6ae41e3bc swap swap defaults 0 0

When I try to boot from the grub menu the partition with

/dev/sdb4: UUID="2ffcb236-558e-43a9-b16b-bfa3c38b34e9" TYPE="ext3"

cannot be mounted and I am greeted with the message that the filesystem cannot be identified and I am put into a rescue mode.However
by running fdisk command as shown above it is clearly indicated that the partition is ext3 .

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,429

Re: installing arch linux on a flash drive.

Does it find the kernel and boot but not mount /dev/sdb4 ?
The /dev/sdb4 is your /home, you have not just mixed home and root by any chance?