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I just got Arch installed and somewhat working. I am able to boot up off the hard drive using syslinux, that works great. But then I get this error when starting up:
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda3...
ERROR: device '/dev/sda3' not found. Skpping fsck
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/sda3'.
And drops me to a useless recovery shell. My partitions are as follows:
/dev/sda1 - Swap partition, 3G
/dev/sda2 - Bootable, main partition, linux filesystem, 47G
/dev/sda3 is not even a partition, so why is it trying to use it?
I've seen a thread addressing a similar problem but did not find any help in it.
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Is it in your /etc/fstab?
Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...
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Post /etc/fstab here. What have you tried to do to troubleshoot this so far?
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The important parts:
/dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
/dev/sda1 none swap defaults 0 0
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Just post the whole thing, in code tags. Post the syslinux config file as well.
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What does "cat /proc/cmdline" show?
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cat /proc/cmdline output:
BOOT_IMAGE=boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisobaseddir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201411 initrd=bot/intel_ucode.img,boot/x86_64/archiso.img
And where would the config be located?
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Sorry, what does "cat /proc/cmdline" show when you're booted into your arch install. Nullified's hint about your syslinux config file is in the same vein as what I'm asking. The syslinux Archwiki page tells you where to find it's config file, since you don't know where it is, I suspect you haven't modified it for your installation.
Last edited by WorMzy (2015-03-12 23:19:14)
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Mobo: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX // Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @4.9GHz // GFX: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT // RAM: 32GB (4x 8GB) Corsair DDR4 (@ 3000MHz) // Storage: 1x 3TB HDD, 6x 1TB SSD, 2x 120GB SSD, 1x 275GB M2 SSD
Making lemonade from lemons since 2015.
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Nevermind, I solved the issue myself.
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I'm pretty sure the problem is that you never configured syslinux. The stock config uses sda3 as the root partition as an example only. You need to edit it to suit your system. (edit, this was cross posted with the above post).
If this is solved, please indicate how you solved it, and prepend [SOLVED] to the title.
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