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Archie

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Help me with my arch installation

HI all i was trying to install arch-0.7.1, i configured a dualboot system and then i tried to log in to Arch. All i got was some busybox thing and a minimal set off commands, i couldn't do anything! What went wrong?

FUBAR

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

Remove the installation CD when you're done installing.

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

i did that didn't work

FUBAR

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

Where exactly in the install guide are you?

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lilsirecho

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

Did you get an error message concerning fsck failure?

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

problem solved: i used kernel 2.4.x instead of 2.6

Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

ok i tried to install kernel 2.6 again, and i got errors and it booted in to busybox. Some of the errors where cand unmount /initrd and something about root.

this is what my grub conf looks like:

root (hdb1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root= /dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /initrd26.img

i have a sualboot system so my windows xp install is on (hd0,0)

hightower

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

have you really two harddrives? And as we are taking about hardware, some more information wouldn't hurt :-)

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

i have two harddrives, hda and hdb, hdb is ofcourse the slave.

installed arch on hdb and partioned with the auto partion option so it set ups the mount points and everthing automatic.

i have an  AMD Athlon XP 1,7 ghz, 512 RAM, geforce 2 MX

when i tried the 2.4 kernel everything seemed fine, but couldnt get my internet working. but that's another question and another thread

hightower

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

... i got errors and it booted in to busybox. Some of the errors where cand unmount /initrd and something about root ...

Try to get the exact error message and post it into the forums, please.

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

something like this:

Ext2-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: Mouting /dev/root on new_root failed: Invalid argoment
pivot_root: pivot_root: no such file or directory
unmount: /initrd: no such file or directory
unmount: /initrd: no such file or directory
/linuxrc:527:/sbin/busybox: Not found
Freeing unused kernel memory 252k freed

BusyBox v1.01 (2006.03.10-22:56+0000)
Build-in shell (ash)

Enter ´help´ for a list of build-in commands
/bin/sh: can´t access tty: job control turned off

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augustob

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

root (hdb1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root= /dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /initrd26.img

Unless you rewrote these lines incorrectly, the kernel and initrd should be inside the boot directory, and the root disk should be (hd1,0), not (hdb1,0).

As follows:

title Arch!
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

ok it tried

title Arch!
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

but it didn't work, i tried with the quick edit funktion when grub boots up.

teally wierd, because the 2.4 kernel worked

jaboua

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

Unless you rewrote these lines incorrectly, the kernel and initrd should be inside the boot directory

Unless /boot is on it's own partition iirc

Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

grub menu

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb3 vga=773 ro
initrd /initrd26.img

# (1) windows xp
title    Windows XP
root    (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

the fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

/dev/hdb3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0

now whats wrong :S

FUBAR

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

Change the kernel and initrd lines to:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb3 vga=773 ro 
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

ok so i tried changing the lines to the ones above but it goes ERROR 15: FILE NOT FOUND on me

Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

i used explore2fs on my windoze machine and  the vmlinuz26 and initrd26.img are on hdb1, is this correct?

FUBAR

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

You can use "e" in Grub to edit a menu entry and even TAB for completion. That way you can pinpoint the location of the files that can't be found. You have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst once you've booted Arch because the changes made using "e" aren't permanent.

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scarecrow

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb3 vga=773 ro
initrd /initrd26.img

Should work like that.

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Archie

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

didn't work

when i installed the base packages i got a message about udev, maybe i need to uninstall it? just a stupid thought but maybe?

scarecrow

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

The current 2.6.X kernel works only with udev, devfs is deprecated.
On the other hand kernel 2.4.X works only with devfsd,
I suggest doing a fresh base installation (shouldn't take more than 10 minutes) with kernel 2.6.X and leaving out devfsd completely.

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SICH

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Re: Help me with my arch installation

A got this error after pacman -Syu
pacman log:

[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded apache (2.2.2-4 -> 2.2.2-5)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded ati-fglrx (8.25.18-4 -> 8.26.18-1)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded ati-fglrx-beyond (8.25.18-1 -> 8.26.18-1)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded ati-fglrx-utils (8.25.18-2 -> 8.26.18-1)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded dbus (0.61-3 -> 0.62-1)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded dbus-sharp (0.61-1 -> 0.62-1)
[06/29/06 17:52] upgraded gdm (2.14.7-1 -> 2.14.9-1)
[06/29/06 17:53] upgraded gnupg (1.4.2.2-1 -> 1.4.4-1)
[06/29/06 17:53] upgraded gtk2 (2.8.18-1 -> 2.8.19-1)
[06/29/06 17:53] upgraded mkinitramfs (1.4-8 -> 1.5-1)
[06/29/06 17:53] upgraded kernel26beyond (2.6.16.beyond4.1-1 -> 2.6.17.beyond1-3)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded libmp4v2 (1.4.1-1 -> 1.5.0.1-1)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded libxft (2.1.8.2-1 -> 2.1.10-1)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded mod_python (3.2.8-1 -> 3.2.8-2)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded mplayer (1.0pre7-6 -> 1.0pre8-1)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded wine (0.9.15-2 -> 0.9.16-1)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded xorg-util-macros (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.2-1)
[06/29/06 17:55] upgraded xulrunner (1.8.0.4-1 -> 1.8.0.4-2)
[06/29/06 18:24] installed gconf-editor (2.14.0-2)

grub.conf:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Beyond
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-beyond.img

fstab:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0
tmpfs                  /tmp          tmpfs     defaults            0      0
usbfs                  /proc/bus/usb usbfs  defaults            0      0

/dev/hdd     /media/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/hdc     /media/cdrw iso9660       rw,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/floppy/0          /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

/dev/hda9               swap            swap    defaults                0 0
/dev/hda7               /               ext3    defaults                0 1
/dev/hda8               /home           ext3    defaults                0 1