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chopstickkk

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Registered: 2012-05-19

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[SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

After installing and configuring I used my current GRUB2 that's associated with a Ubuntu partition to find my Arch via 'update-grub'

All seemed fine but when I boot Arch from GRUB2 I quickly get this...

:: Starting udevd...
done.
:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
:: performing fsck on '/dev/sda3'
fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sda3
ERROR: fsck failed on '/dev/sda3'
:: mounting '/dev/sda3' on real root
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
[rootfs /]# _

Stupidly, when configuring my install I put a line for my Windows XP partition into the fstab thusly...

/dev/sda3 /media/Windows ntfs defaults 0 2

I have since removed that line but unfortunately I get the same emergency shell and still cannot boot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies in advance for my newb-ness, I have done searches but I'm probably searching for the wrong thing.

John.

Last edited by chopstickkk (2012-05-19 17:30:18)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

What is your partitioning scheme?  If I were to guess, arch can't find the root partition which it seems to think is sda3.

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DSpider

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Re: [SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

You installed Arch on an NTFS partition? Um, why?

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chopstickkk

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Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

What is your partitioning scheme?  If I were to guess, arch can't find the root partition which it seems to think is sda3.

Thanks Trilby,

Turns out GRUB2 probed the OS incorrectly which resulted in this entry in grub.cfg

menuentry "Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz-linux] (on /dev/sda6)" {
	insmod part_msdos
	insmod ext2
	set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set a7c8f3cf-e4eb-4f30-ba98-88274a5aefbd
	linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro
	initrd /initramfs-linux.img
}

I changed all the references to refer to partition 6 (Arch's /boot is sda6) as it should have and things are booting nicely now.

Cheers,
John.

litchiware

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Registered: 2015-08-24

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Re: [SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

I met the similar problem, and finally found the cause:

when I run

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxY

in my installation process, it prompted Proceed anyway?(y,n) and I pressed enter, which resulted in skipping the process because the default entry is n. So I didn't get the ext4 filesystem but a ntfs one.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED] - First boot fail - unknown filesystem type 'ntfs'

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing

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