[Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

HarryGeez · 2014-11-21 06:00:25

So I have a MacBookPro11,3, the official archiso booted on my laptop and I managed to get into zsh to install Arch Linux, BUT, I couldn't because it couldn't detect my Broadcom wireless, and I don't have an ethernet to thunderbolt adapter. I don't want to purchase one just to install Arch.

After some thorough digging in the Arch wiki, I've decided to build my own archiso using archiso so that it has the broadcom-wl drivers on it. I don't know if it has anything to with the fact that I built the archiso and dd-ed it onto my USB stick on Arch Linux running in a VM on my MacBook, but that's what I did and when it's done, I tried to boot my USB stick and this is what I got (I don't know how to copy the console log):
http://i.imgur.com/IeaXZeq.jpg?1

Just a side note, it booted on my old netbook, but it was on BIOS though.

I did a search and I found this:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125520

The console log seems pretty similar to mine, though I'm not sure it's the same error. There are some workarounds there that I don't know how to use and again I'm not sure if it solves my problems so, any ideas? Any help is extremely appreciated. Thanks!

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Last edited by HarryGeez (2014-11-25 13:36:54)

TheSaint · 2014-11-21 08:52:22

I think you're using btrfs and some problem is coming from that.

HarryGeez · 2014-11-21 09:29:10

TheSaint wrote:

I think you're using btrfs and some problem is coming from that.

what do you mean? I can't even manage to boot into the zsh shell to install arch.

If you mean the filesystem of the archiso install medium then I don't know because it was built using archiso and I only dd-ed it to my USB. All I did was adding an additional package to the packages.x86_64 file, a custom local repo to pacman.conf and running build.sh. Also, as far as I know, archiso uses squashfs.

TheSaint · 2014-11-21 09:53:37

Well, problably my detection is wrong, I saw cowspace (COW) while trying to mount your arch. That's is used in btrfs, but my wrong it could be also squashfs may use it.
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djgera · 2014-11-21 18:47:29

A bug in systemd package, fixed in 217-7. Boot with earlymodules=loop on cmdline

Last edited by djgera (2014-11-21 18:47:51)

HarryGeez · 2014-11-24 16:15:51

djgera wrote:

A bug in systemd package, fixed in 217-7. Boot with earlymodules=loop on cmdline

Sorry, but can you or anyone explain how to do this with more details? Will rebuilding the archiso solve this?

djgera · 2014-11-25 10:54:13

if you rebuild now, yes, because systemd 217-7 packages is now in [core], otherwise, press [Tab] at syslinux menu entry then type earlymodules=loop and [enter]

HarryGeez · 2014-11-25 13:35:52

djgera wrote:

if you rebuild now, yes, because systemd 217-7 packages is now in [core], otherwise, press [Tab] at syslinux menu entry then type earlymodules=loop and [enter]

Thank you!

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#1 2014-11-21 06:00:25

[Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#2 2014-11-21 08:52:22

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#3 2014-11-21 09:29:10

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#4 2014-11-21 09:53:37

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#5 2014-11-21 18:47:29

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#6 2014-11-24 16:15:51

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#7 2014-11-25 10:54:13

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

#8 2014-11-25 13:35:52

Re: [Solved] Custom built archiso doesn't boot on MacBookPro11,3 but boots

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