[SOLVED] Clean Install of Arch Linux Fails to Boot Completely

archinoob · 2016-10-25 23:33:01

After installing Arch Linux on my MacBook Pro (MacBookPro3,1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8600M GT, 2GB of RAM, and a Hitachi hard drive with 149.05 GB, late 2009) using the official wiki, I rebooted and waited for the computer to start up. The system would successfully boot until it went to

/dev/sda2: clean, 34954/9469952 files, 11206527/37879552 blocks

, after which the cursor would start blinking slightly erratically, after which it ceased blinking all together. After removing the word quiet from grub, the laptop now starts up until it reaches

 Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status.

. What should I do?

Last edited by archinoob (2016-10-26 22:28:29)

jasonwryan · 2016-10-25 23:52:57

What is supposed to happen? Login at TTY? X? DM? WM or DE?

Is anything printed to the journal?

Moving to NC...

archinoob · 2016-10-26 00:19:29

I followed the installation guide, so I believe login at tty1 should occur. After running

journalctl

, I scrolled and found the following error messages.

nouveau 000:01:00.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: unable to locate usable image
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios ctor failed, -22
nouveau: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22

. If you need more information, please give me the necessary command and I will post the outputs. Right now, I am running on the live version and am in chroot.
Very strangely, the journal also states

 
Reached target Basic System.
Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
Starting Login Service...
Starting Permit User Sessions...
Started Permit User Sessions.
Started Getty on tty1.
Reached target Login Prompts.

and a little later

 
Started Login Service.
New seat seat0.
Reached target Multi-User System.
Reached target Graphical Interface.
Startup finished in 
3.762s (kernel) + 7.250s (userspace) = 11.012s

.

Last edited by archinoob (2016-10-26 00:50:38)

jasonwryan · 2016-10-26 00:28:59

Details of your graphics card(s)? See https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Tr … #index10h3

archinoob · 2016-10-26 00:48:39

Running

lspci -v

, the relevant portion of the output is

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Apple INc. Device 00a0
Physical Slot: 1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at 93000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific INformation: ID=0001 REv=1 Len=024 <?>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau

.

jasonwryan · 2016-10-26 02:41:45

Did you read the link I posted?

archinoob · 2016-10-26 21:18:05

I read the link you posted, and it seems I have a level 3 hang, though you probably already determined that. Otherwise, I did not find the solution to the problem hitherto described, but if I am missing something, please do inform me. Here is the full output of

journalctl

, and here is the full output of

dmesg

. I'm sorry it took long to reply.

jasonwryan · 2016-10-26 21:32:54

Your kernel command line doesn't include the nouveau.config option...

archinoob · 2016-10-26 22:09:48

I looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau for more information, but I failed to see how to include the nouveau.config option in the kernel command line. Please do describe how.

jasonwryan · 2016-10-26 22:19:56

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_parameters

archinoob · 2016-10-26 22:26:40

Thanks jasonwryan. In summary, my nouveau.config option was missing, and editing /etc/default/grub, appending the kernel options to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line:

 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.config"

,
and then re-generating the grub.cfg file with:

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

fixed the problem.
@jasonwryan I hope this is less "shorthand", if that is what you were referring to.

Last edited by archinoob (2016-10-26 22:35:38)

jasonwryan · 2016-10-26 22:28:44

Um, that was shorthand for the actual config option on their wiki...

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