Arch Install Problem on Fujitsu U820 Laptop

ArchiMark · 2015-11-12 02:50:58

Hope someone can please advise....

Trying to install Arch on my little Fujitsu U820 laptop.

Downloaded 'archlinux-2015.11.01-dual.iso' file.

Then used unetbootin on USB 16GB flash drive to prepare flash drive to do Arch install.

Able to boot up laptop with flash drive. Selected the default option and started the install.

Here's what I see in console:

Booting the kernel.
[        7.883967 ]  Failed to find cpu0 device node
: : running early hook [udev ]
starting version 227
: : running hook [udev ]
: : Triggering uevents...
[       8.103973 ] yenta_cardbus  0000:05:03.0: No cardbus resource!
: : running hook [memdisk ]
: : running hook [archiso ]
: : running hook [archiso_loopmnt ]
: : running hook [archiso_pxe_common ]
: : running hook [archiso_pxe_nbd ]
: : running hook [archiso_pxe_http ]
: : running hook [archiso_pxe_nfs ]
: : Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ ...
[       9.588939  ] sd 2:0:0:0:  [ sdb ] No caching mode page found
[       9.588939  ] sd 2:0:0:0:  [ sdb ] Assuming drive cache: write through
ERROR:  '/dev/disk/by-label/'  device did not show up after 30 seconds...
     Falling back to interactive prompt
     You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Any suggestions???

Thanks for any and all input!

Mark

UPDATE
Think I figured out reason for problem......

Found the wiki page on USB flash drive install.....

Specifically says 'unetbootin' is not recommended for install....

Will try another approach.....

Last edited by ArchiMark (2015-11-12 04:28:13)

ayekat · 2015-11-12 09:08:58

(I was about to say you are probably using Windows, but then again, 83 posts in on this forum, I guess you should have at least one Linux system at hand by now.)

Is there a reason why you don't just dd the image onto the USB drive?

Last edited by ayekat (2015-11-12 14:48:45)

ArchiMark · 2015-11-12 14:33:42

ayekat wrote:

(I was about to say you are probably using Windows, but then again, 83 posts in on this forum, I guess you should have at least one Linux system at hand by now.)

Ouch.........

I haven't installed Arch in about 3 years.....

Found that some other distros (quite different from Arch...) were more compatible some other little laptops I was using....

So, need/in process of refreshing myself with 'the Arch way'.....

Is there are a reason why you don't just dd the image onto the USB drive?

Ummmmm.............not really......

I've got USB drive prepared now.....

Starting to go through the steps of now of preparing the drive partitions......

Hopefully, things will go OK now...

Trilby · 2015-11-12 14:45:11

ArchiMark wrote:

Then used unetbootin

I don't know if this is the only problem, but it definitely is a problem.

wiki wrote:

UNetbootin can be used on any Linux distribution or Windows to copy your iso to a USB device. However, Unetbootin overwrites syslinux.cfg, so it creates a USB device that does not boot properly. For this reason, Unetbootin is not recommended -- please use dd or one of the other methods discussed in this topic.

ArchiMark · 2015-11-12 16:54:19

Thanks.....

Yes, reading the wiki, as noted in my 'UPDATE' in first post above, made me realize the unetbootin approach was not good, due to overwriting syslinux.cfg....

Meanwhile, didn't go into all the details in first post.....

I just installed Win10 on the little U820 the other day to see what it was like....works surpisingly well considering the age of the U820 and only 1GB RAM...

I did replace the old hard drive with a 128GB SSD though....noticeably faster....

My plan is to dual boot Win10 with Arch........

Just checked and the U820 used BIOS mode Legacy boot.

Have shrunk Windows C drive partition to create another partition for Arch.....

Onward and upward.........hopefully.....

;-)

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Arch Install Problem on Fujitsu U820 Laptop

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