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DamienRoth

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 3

Arch doesn't boot

Greeting, I've installed Arch today for the very first time and sadly when I try to boot, I get this error message.
http://i.imgur.com/5H5961L.png
I would be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.

also this is my first time posting on these forums so I apologize if I broke any forum rules unknowingly.

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Last edited by Trilby (2015-04-11 17:03:55)

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: Arch doesn't boot

Reading the rules helps to avoid breaking them: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309
The image, for example, should be a link.

How did you install the system? What guides did you follow? How did you generate the fstab? Have you double checked to make sure the UUID is correct?

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firekage

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From: Eastern Europe, Poland

Registered: 2013-06-30

Posts: 623

Re: Arch doesn't boot

Greeting, I've installed Arch today for the very first time and sadly when I try to boot, I get this error message.
http://i.imgur.com/5H5961L.png
I would be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.

also this is my first time posting on these forums so I apologize if I broke any forum rules unknowingly.

-- mod edit: converted img to url.  Trilby. --

In this error there is shown why it can't boot. System does not see the root partition. Either you did not generate fstab at all or did it wrong.

Go to terminal, check your uuid with lsblk command and place this in fstab.

DamienRoth

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: Arch doesn't boot

Thanks for the replies, I used the Arch Wiki Beginners' guide and general wiki for the installation, I'm installing it on a VMware Virtual Machine, for the disk partitioning I have one hard disk that I partitioned to sda1 and sda2, sda2 as a swap partition and sda1 as a lvm partition, after that I've generated one PV and VG in lvm and placed the PV in the VG, after that I made two LV and formatted them both as ext4, I then mounted the my root partition which is the first LV in sda1 and installed the base system, I then skipped the fstab generation step because for some reason I thought that the OS will know the boot order automatically, after that I ran the chroot command per guide instructions, uncommented en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8  in locale.gen, fixed my time zone, ran the hwclock --systohc --utc command, ran this command systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service to set up the network, fixed a root password and installed GRUB to /dev/sda, and configured the /etc/default/grub file like this http://i.imgur.com/mH6Xu3O.png, then I unmounted, rebooted and got this error..

now I've booted up the installation iso again and generated the fstab file as the guide says and rebooted but it still don't work. here is how I generated fstab 
http://i.imgur.com/n0URIfY.png

wtx

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 82

Re: Arch doesn't boot

DamienRoth: when the system drops you to recovery shell type:

"blkid" or "lsblk -o +UUID" and send us what you get.

DamienRoth

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: Arch doesn't boot

Sorry that I didn't post for a while, I wasn't home because I'm in the army..

anyway wtx I've done what you've suggested posting the results now.  http://i.imgur.com/tQd9Zfx.png

TheSpiceMustFlow

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Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 2

Re: Arch doesn't boot

Your disk partitions are on top of LVM?
Double check that grub and the initramfs are mounting the volume group before mounting the contents of fstab.
Unless you tell it otherwise, it will assume the root partition is on a primary partition.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mk … #Using_LVM

Run "lvscan -a" in the recovery console. It should tell you that /dev/mapper/vgpool-WastingMyLIfe is mounted if your initramfs is set up correct.
What do the kernel commands of your grub.cfg say?

Honestly if this is just for a virtual machine, don't even bother with LVM. LVM is meant for getting virtual disk features on a physical machine.
Just use regular partitions, and if you need to resize, resize the disks with VMware and then resize the partitions with a gparted live image.

wtx

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Registered: 2014-06-09

Posts: 82

Re: Arch doesn't boot

It looks like your kernel doesn't see the lvm volumes.
What is the line conatining "HOOKS" in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file?
Is there "lvm2" in it?

Take a look at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LV … tcpio.conf

Last edited by wtx (2015-04-20 04:44:25)