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DenverFisherman

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Registered: 2015-11-29

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USB Install Stalls After Boot Screen

I'll start with an overview of my system and a summary of what I'm trying to do:

Z77 Sabertooth Asus Motherboard
Intel i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
16 GB Dual Channel RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (dual displays running DVI connections)
Samsung SSD 128GB (Windows 10 partition)
WD Blue 1TB (use this for Arch Linux install)
WD Blue 1TB x 3 running in RAID 5 for storage (NTFS)

I've already done a clean install of Win 7 and upgraded to Win 10 on my SSD.  The RAID drives serve as storage for User folders and app/game installs.  I want to install Arch onto the spare WD drive and flip the boot sequencing so that the boot loader on this drive will allow me to dual boot into either Arch or Win 10.

I followed the installation Wiki on obtaining the Arch ISO and burning it onto a USB flash drive using Rufus.  I've run the install with an ISO burn and a DD burn with identical results.  Its important to point out that my Windows system was not installed UEFI.  In my initial attempts to get the install to work I tested changing the setting in BIOS to UEFI to see if my Windows install would boot.  It did not and it also did not recognize my RAID drives at boot up.  So I've abandoned trying to install Arch with UEFI enabled.  From other forum posts it seems like this shouldn't be an issue.

Running the install with no changes to the command line parameters yields the following output:

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux.... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
:: running early hook [udev]
starting version 227
::running hook [udev]
::Triggering uevents...

Its important to point out that the resolution appears to go from a limited resolution to a higher resolution in the middle of the output above being generated.

I did some reading and it sounded like there is an issue with the NVidia cards or something to do with the drivers not working correctly during fresh installs, so I tried the suggestion to add the nomodeset parameter to the arguments at the boot menu.  Doing so yields the same output:

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux.... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
:: running early hook [udev]
starting version 227
::running hook [udev]
::Triggering uevents...

This time though the screen does not shift resolutions and remains in the lower BIOS-like resolution.

Read some more forum posts and some suggestions indicated the following additional arguments should be passed to correct the problem - "nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 nvidia.modeset=0".  This gets me a bit farther:

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux.... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
:: running early hook [udev]
starting version 227
::running hook [udev]
::Triggering uevents...
[4.668380] sd 10:0:0:0 [sdf] No Caching mode page found
[4.668438] sd 10:0:0:0 [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
[34.479156] ata9.00: exception Emask 0x52 Sact 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff action 0xe frozen
[34.479218] ata9: SError: {RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch }
[34.479286] ata9.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[34.479343] ata9.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 21 pio 512 in
[34.479343] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x56 (ATA bus error)
[34.479410] ata9.00: status: { DRDY }

Kind of stumped at this point and getting a little discouraged.  I've performed multiple linux installs in the past and successfully created dual boot machines.  I'd really like to figure this out as I like the idea behind ARCH and I'd prefer to run this instead of the many bloated distros out there.

If you can please help.  Also, please let me know what argument I need to pass to get a log file from these install fails so I can post without having to type the errors out.  Let me know what other info you need form me to help diagnose the issue.

Thank you,

DenverFish

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Re: USB Install Stalls After Boot Screen

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=174335

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