[SOLVED] Asus X205TA - Unable to boot after installation

danielng91 · 2015-09-25 14:29:00

Hello. I'm semi-new to Arch, I have used a USB installation previously.

I bought an Asus X205TA 64GB eMMC recently with a plan to remove Windows completely and install Arch.

I managed to install Arch using the beginner's guide. One change I made was using GRUB instead of bootctl. Another issue was being unable to set my hwclock. Upon reboot I get the following problem:

[  0.068222] Ignoring BGRT: invalid status 0 (expected 1)
starting version 226
/dev/mmcblk0p2: clean, 37466/378404 files, 545693/15138304 blocks
[  1.707673] systemd[1]: Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[FAILED] Failed to start Remount Boot and Kernel File Systems.
See 'systemctl status systemd-remount -fs.service' for details. 
         Starting Load/Save Random Seed...
         Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
         Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev... 
[  OK  ] Started Journal Service
[  OK  ] Started Load/Save Random Seed
         Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...
[  OK  ] Started Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
         Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
[  OK  ] Reached target Local File Systems (Pre).
[  OK  ] Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
[  OK  ] Started udev Kernel Device Manager. 
[    2.135504] sst-acpi 80860F28:00: No matching ASoC machine driver found 
[  OK  ] Started Flush Journal to Persistent Storage. 
[    2.351692] intel_sst_acpi 80860F28: No matching machine driver found
[    2.440556] i2c_hid i2c-PDEC3393: error in i2c_hid_init_report size:7 / re
t_size:4
[    2.447187] i2c_hid i2c-PDEC3393: error in i2c_hid_init_report size:19 / r
et_size:4
[    2.547834] i2c_hid i2c-ELAN0100:00: error in i2c_hid_init_report size:633 / ret_size:7
[    2.557785] i2c_hid i2c-ELAN0100:00: error in i2c_hid_init_report size:131 / ret_size:7
[    2.597611] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_drivestrengthinit: No SDIO Drive strength init done for chip 43340 rev 2 pmurev 20
[  OK  ] Created slice system-systemd\x2drfkill.slice.
        Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill0...
[  OK  ] Reached target Bluetooth.
[  OK  ] Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill0.
[  OK  ] Created slice system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice.
         Starting Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:intel_backlight...
[  OK  ] Started Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:intel_backlight.
[    5.617080] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50 
[    6.629874] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50 
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-911E\x2d691F.device.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /boot.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File Systems. 
[  OK  ] Stopped Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
[  OK  ] Stopped Getty on tty1.
[  OK  ] Stopped target Graphic Interface. 
[  OK  ] Stopped target Multi-User System. 
[  OK  ] Stopped D-Bus System Message Bus. 
[  OK  ] Stopped Daily verification of password and group files.
[  OK  ] Stopped Login Service. 
[  OK  ] Closed D-Bus System Message Bus Socket. 
[  OK  ] Stopped Permit User Sessions.
[  OK  ] Stopped Daily man-db cache update. 
[  OK  ] Stopped target Basic System. 
[  OK  ] Reached target Sockets. 
[  OK  ] Reached target Login Prompts. 
[  OK  ] Stopped Daily rotation of log files. 
[  OK  ] Stopped target System Initialization. 
[  OK  ] Started Emergency Shell. 
         Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
[  OK  ] Reached target Emergency Mode. 
[  OK  ] Reached target Timers. 
[  OK  ] Started Create Volatile Files and Directories.
         Starting Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown... 
         Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
[  OK  ] Started Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown. 
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to
try again to boot into default mode. 
Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):

After inputing "systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service":

systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-09-25 21:56:54 MYT; 2min 44s ago
    Docs: man: systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
          http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
  Process: 199 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 199 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 25 21:56:54 localhost systemd-remount-fs[199]: mount: can't find UUID=ef36ed4a-4d41-41f1-9896-de3b59fbfe27
Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

Here is my "/etc/fstab":

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>         <dump> <pass>
# /dev/mmcblk0p2
UUID=ef36ed4a-4d41-41f1-9896-de3b59fbfe27    /      ext4      rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 1

# /dev/mmcblk0p1
UUID=911E-691F      /boot     vfat       rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro    0 2

I followed the "Asus X205TA" guide on the ArchWiki and this blog as my guide. Ultimately, I made a customiso with the 'bootia32.efi' and the appropriate wireless firmware inside. The bootable USB was made by Rufus with NTFS format.

Upon booting I reached a GRUB prompt, in which I referenced this post to boot my USB from and my USB happily booted. (though it had issues with freezing several times until being able to boot).

I have tried installing in both 64-bit and 32-bit to no avail. Please help.

Main problem: Unable to boot after install.

Other issues:
1. grub prompt freezes several times before being able to boot USB
2. Unable to set hwclock using "hwclock --systohc --utc" as it is unable to locate /dev/rtc. (from --debug)

Last edited by danielng91 (2015-09-25 18:13:36)

onslow77 · 2015-09-25 15:59:19

Hello!

Your log say it cant mount because it can not find the UUID

 Sep 25 21:56:54 localhost systemd-remount-fs[199]: mount: can't find UUID=ef36ed4a-4d41-41f1-9896-de3b59fbfe27

Check your UUID with the below and make sure you entered the correct UUID in your fstab.

 # blkid

Regards
Martin

danielng91 · 2015-09-25 16:17:34

omg.

blkid:

/dev/mmcblk0p1: UUID="1DF9-9BAA" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="cefd1fec-6188-4e95-bd51-048cd35c53a1"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="29120978-6e73-431a-9592-7b8fd71d7a1b" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="13825b2e-22ab-4d28-881c-24a6b0cdef2c"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID=:3afdbbff-36f9-441b-9740-03461bd34164" PTTYPE="gpt"

THANK YOU. I'll try to search how to gen fstab again from the emergency mode.

I don't understand though, I generated my fstab after I formated my partitions. Why has it changed then?

-Daniel-

danielng91 · 2015-09-25 18:13:09

An update:

Thanks for the pointout that the UUID was not in sync. It was the underlying issue. Read in this post and this post that apparent UEFI does genfstab incorrectly sometimes.

However, after booting into emergency mode, the command 'genfstab' is not present anymore. Therefore I had to use my bootable USB again to generate the appropriate fstab. And just in case, download "arch-install-scripts". After which my setup booted nicely!

Thank you onslow77 for the point out! I'm now customising my setup.

-Daniel-

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#1 2015-09-25 14:29:00

[SOLVED] Asus X205TA - Unable to boot after installation

#2 2015-09-25 15:59:19

Re: [SOLVED] Asus X205TA - Unable to boot after installation

#3 2015-09-25 16:17:34

Re: [SOLVED] Asus X205TA - Unable to boot after installation

#4 2015-09-25 18:13:09

Re: [SOLVED] Asus X205TA - Unable to boot after installation

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