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Cesium

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Registered: 2022-01-30

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[SOLVED] Issues mounting root partition for installation

Hi, I'm a bit new to Arch Linux. I've installed it on a VM before without any issues, but now I want to use it as my daily driver.

I have an old Chromebook that I've converted to run Pop!_OS, which it ran flawlessly(ish).

Anyways, I started following the wiki's install guide and everything went well up until I needed to mount the root filesystem...

# mount /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt
[ 1759.050391] SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt
[ 1759.050629] SQUASHFS error: Failed to read block 0x20112c6e: -5
[ 1759.050737] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read fragment cache entry [20112c6e]
[ 1759.050890] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 20112c63, size s158c
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'.

I'm able to mount the EFI partition anywhere, but just not the root partition.

Output of

lsblk -f

NAME                FSTYPE       FSVER                   LABEL                  UUID      FSAVAIL     FSUSE%     MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                 squashfs    4.0                        ARCH_202112      *                      0          100%     /run/archiso/airootfs
sda                    iso9660      Joliet Extension    ARCH_202112      *
|-sda1                iso9660      Joliet Extension    ARCHISO_EFI        *                      0          100%     /run/archiso/bootmnt
|-sda2                vfat            FAT16
mmcblk0
|-mmcblk0p1     vfat            FAT32                                                *               511M              0%     /install/efi**
|-mmcblk0p2     swap          1                                                       *
|-mmcblk0p3     ext4           1.0                                                    *
mmcblkboot0
mmcblkboot1

* A UUID is here, I just don't want to copy it over... ya know.
** It's mounted here because I was reading this and I thought I had to copy stuff onto there, which I don't.

Thanks!

Acer Chromebook R11 [C738T] (Cyan)
Firmware: MrChromebox-4.14
Processor: Intel Celeron N3160 4 cores @ 1.60 GHz
RAM: 4GB
eMMC: 16 GB (Small, I know. It works for me )
ArchISO Version: 2021.12.01-x86_64

EDIT:
For kicks and giggles, I decided to try Ubuntu Server (Since it was the only ISO I had that would fit on my flash drive) and that ended up in a Kernel Panic! I Re-flashed the same Arch ISO and whaddya know it's another kernel panic! This time, Arch was complaining about SquashFS not being able to read a different block. I'll try another flash drive if I can find one... I've had issues with this particular POS flash drive before...

EDIT 2:
Found one! This time because I'm just not in the mood to deal with... things, so I used archinstall. I'm now running Arch Linux on my Chromebook!

Last edited by Cesium (2022-01-30 22:47:12)