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Cloufish

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Registered: 2020-09-01

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SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

From the start, sorry for the title which may not detailed enough and generalized. I've tested booting Arch Linux from SSD through SATA - USB Adapter on many devices with no success. Though it works normally when I connect it without adapter

*ISSUES THAT I'VE EXPERIENCED*
ON MY MAIN PC: I am stuck at 'Loading initial ramdisk', the system freezes
ON MY LAPTOP:

https://imgur.com/vgMJyqF
I get many errors related to failure in loading shared libraries, failure in initranfs unpacking (in this case it was broken padding, but there were situations when there were uncompression error

I couldn't type anything, but this probably is the problem of drivers, though I would so happy if someone knew how to fix this issue
Laptop_Model: Dell Latitude E5450
ON MY SECOND PC:

https://imgur.com/0d1ZhhD
It's failure reading sector from hd1

*WHAT I'VE DONE**
1. I've chosen to make this installation in UEFI/GPT and I didn't install MBR grub. To install GRUB I've executed:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot  --removable --recheck

2. Other than that, I think I've was doing what was instructed in the Installation guide and in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … RUB_legacy

But to be sure I am going to show the output of files that might be interested in solving this problem

The /boot partition:

[root@archlinux boot]# ls
EFI  grub  initramfs-linux-fallback.img  initramfs-linux.img  vmlinuz-linux

mkinitcpio.conf hooks

HOOKS=(base udev block keyboard autodetect modconf filesystems fsck)

/etc/fstab file:

# /dev/sdb2
UUID=c5c8ada4-69d8-4572-9989-139be43879d9       /               ext4            rw,noatime      0 1

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=B569-83E3          /boot           vfat            rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset>

I thank you in advance for the help and support!

Last edited by Cloufish (2020-09-06 11:31:13)

Scimmia

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

first off, you need to be using the fallback initramfs if you're using this on multiple systems, or remove the autodetect hook which makes the normal initramfs the same as the fallback.

second, it does appear the initramfs is corrupt, so it needs to be regenerated anyway. Did you pull it without unmounting/syncing?

Cloufish

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

My laptop is the main candidate, so when the keyboard isn't working the only option I have left is hard shutdown, so that's probably the reason isn't it?

I've executed

 mkinitcpio -p linux 

  and I will try to test it without checking it in the laptop first

Last edited by Cloufish (2020-09-01 17:40:30)

Cloufish

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

I had 3 tries
1. The boot was stuck at /dev/sda2: clear
2. It was kernel panic https://imgur.com/N9B7A9A
3. Stuck in Loading initial ramdisk

Each time i've executed

 mkinitcpio -p linux 

to regenerate initramfs
There's probably many things to work on - on my side

Last edited by Cloufish (2020-09-01 18:41:19)

Cloufish

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

Today I've again checked the laptop, there weren't any errors related to shared libraries, though it has stated that an SSD drive's UUID couldn't be detected.

I've inserted the SSD through a normal SATA interface, and it appears to work flawlessly.

I've thought that maybe the SATA - USB Adapter was changing the drive's UUID, but  I was wrong.

I don't quite know solutions to this, as I said when connected through normal SATA interface performs and boots flawlessly. I might blame it on adapter anyways...

Last edited by Cloufish (2020-09-02 19:14:41)

Scimmia

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

Because you skipped my first point above.

Cloufish

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Re: SSD Removable Arch freezes at boot (mostly Loading inital ramdisk)

I did removed autodetect hook and I was trying to boot with fallback initrams, but the issue is the same, it freezes at Loading initial ramdisk or in any various parts of boot.
Now in case of a laptop it stopped at 'Network Manager Script Dispatcher' part. I am confused