[SOLVED] Boot stuck at "Starting Version 218"

way2smrt · 2015-01-14 23:15:51

Hello everyone,
I am new to Arch and this is my first time installing Linux, unless you count Noobuntu. I've spent a large amount of my last 2 days trying to install Arch, mainly because I screwed up the partitioning. Then I followed this tutorial, and everything went perfect and errorless up until the part where you have to exit and reboot. Then my boot gets stuck at

starting version 218
/dev/sda2: clean, (number)/(number) files, (number)/(number) blocks"

What do I do? I've done a bit of googling but the only other person I found did some odd partitioning that isnt compatible with grub.

Mobo for reference:
Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT

Tutorial for reference:
http://www.linuxveda.com/2014/06/07/arc … utorial/5/

Thanks and sorry for shitty mobile formatting

Last edited by way2smrt (2015-01-16 02:26:46)

karol · 2015-01-14 23:44:29

Why not follow the guide from the wiki?

Edit: The info you see is printed after the bootloader, so I don't think it's grub-related.

How long did you wait to see if it progresses further?

Last edited by karol (2015-01-14 23:46:03)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-14 23:49:45

OK... There's a general thing against using third party tutorials for installation due to the rolling nature of Arch. The Beginner's Guide is up-to-date and is considered the go-to place for ArchLinux installation instructions.

So you're telling us that it doesn't get as far as loading getty?

You should probably look at Boot Debugging and telling us if there are any error messages.

It's probably also worth loading up the LiveCD, mounting everything again, chroot-ing in and seeing if the system journal said anything from the boots.

way2smrt · 2015-01-15 00:54:04

karol wrote:

Why not follow the guide from the wiki?

Edit: The info you see is printed after the bootloader, so I don't think it's grub-related.
How long did you wait to see if it progresses further?

I did follow the guide at first, however it was a bit confusing and I messed the partitiong. I found the other guide to be very straightfoward, and I basically followed the same thing as the wiki except for the part about partitioning.

Also in terms of wait time, I left my computer for several hours and when I came back it was still on the same screen, nothing had changed.

karol · 2015-01-15 01:50:17

Can you switch to another tty?

way2smrt · 2015-01-15 02:28:37

clfarron4 wrote:

OK... There's a general thing against using third party tutorials for installation due to the rolling nature of Arch. The Beginner's Guide is up-to-date and is considered the go-to place for ArchLinux installation instructions.
So you're telling us that it doesn't get as far as loading getty?
You should probably look at Boot Debugging and telling us if there are any error messages.
It's probably also worth loading up the LiveCD, mounting everything again, chroot-ing in and seeing if the system journal said anything from the boots.

OK besides these few lines at the end everything seems fine:

Arch systems[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
Arch kernal: EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
Arch systemd-journal[150]: Journal started
Arch systemd-udevd[159]: starting version 218

The log ends there, I'm assuming I need to look at display-manager.service, maybe I was supposed to install it or something but didn't? I'll google it a bit.

fsckd · 2015-01-15 02:33:49

linuxveda.com wrote:

Now it’s time to update the repositories by running this command:
pacman -Sy

That guide is stupid. It follows -Sy with lots of pacman -S without any pacman -Su.

Edit: not pacman -U

Last edited by fsckd (2015-01-15 02:36:52)

way2smrt · 2015-01-15 03:33:10

Nvm I'm stupid, I missed installing a window manager. Now gdm is giving me errors with nouveau, more googling I guess.

satanselbow · 2015-01-15 09:23:33

way2smrt wrote:

Nvm I'm stupid, I missed installing a window manager. Now gdm is giving me errors with nouveau, more googling I guess.

Way too smart to follow the official install guide?

Use the wiki / beginners / installation guide and folks here will be more than happy to help - might be simpler to start again and follow the correct documentation than try and fill in the gaps from an, obviously faulty, obviously outdated and completely random blog post.

Arch releases a new ISO every calendar month - the tutorial you followed is at least 6 months out of date; and a lot has changed

Last edited by satanselbow (2015-01-15 09:24:08)

zenlord · 2015-01-15 09:37:43

Go easy on the new guy... I just got in the same situation after
1. Switching from nvidia-340xx to nouveau

reboot: ok

2. pacman -Syu
3. packer -Su

reboot: halts for about 2 minutes at 'starting version 218' and then showing horizontal lines (gray on black, each about 8mm wide)

Booting into 'single user mode' gets me a bit further, but still the computer hangs (this time at 'starting hostname service')

Any help appreciated.

Vincent

/EDIT: to be complete: I also removed packages 'isl' and 'cloog' from AUR (in a 4th step), but that should not have any influence

Last edited by zenlord (2015-01-15 09:40:59)

clfarron4 · 2015-01-15 11:28:04

way2smrt wrote:

Nvm I'm stupid, I missed installing a window manager. Now gdm is giving me errors with nouveau, more googling I guess.

Try another DM, LXDM for example and see how you go with that (remember to disable GDM and enable the new one).

zenlord wrote:

Go easy on the new guy... I just got in the same situation after
1. Switching from nvidia-340xx to nouveau
reboot: ok
2. pacman -Syu
3. packer -Su
reboot: halts for about 2 minutes at 'starting version 218' and then showing horizontal lines (gray on black, each about 8mm wide)
Booting into 'single user mode' gets me a bit further, but still the computer hangs (this time at 'starting hostname service')
Any help appreciated.
Vincent
/EDIT: to be complete: I also removed packages 'isl' and 'cloog' from AUR (in a 4th step), but that should not have any influence

Maybe a separate thread for this?

zenlord · 2015-01-15 13:10:29

You're right: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1493175
Thx.

way2smrt · 2015-01-15 22:34:06

Ok I just changed my driver to nvidia instead of nouveau since it was giving me errors and I kind of liked the nvidia one better, rebooted and then boom!, everything works! Currently posting this off of my new Arch Linux system, thanks for all you help guys!

Steef435 · 2015-01-16 00:18:59

Great! Please edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the title.

way2smrt · 2015-01-16 02:27:11

Steef435 wrote:

Great! Please edit your first post and add [SOLVED] to the title.

Ah whoops sorry I forgot about that

markasoftware · 2015-01-21 00:18:24

I see its a video driver issue, but I had the same problem and probing around, the solution is to either:

a) use a different bootloader. For me, syslinux worked fine
b) Edit /etc/default/grub, and comment the line "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep" by adding # in front of it

I ended up going with the latter

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