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gigel

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Registered: 2023-06-13

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[SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

Hi all,

I've been trying to install Arch on my laptop, but no success so far. Grabbed the latest usb iso image, booted up the usb stick, everything went fine until the reboot. The arch kernel won't boot up.

I installed the linux-g14 kernel from asuslinux.org, but same thing happens, after selecting the kernel from grub, the same blank screen with a one liner shows up.

I compiled my own kernel from the config that comes with arch usb live image. Same thing.
Compiled my own kernel from scratch, grabbed 6.6.1 vanilla, make menuconfig, selected all the reasonable stuff there, disabled all the crap. Same error

/dev/nvmexxx clean, xxxx/xxxxx files , xxxxx/xxxxx blocks

instead of the x's there are some numbers, but I don't believe they mean anything.
I will try again without compiling framebuffer and nvidia stuff at all. Maybe something is broken, but then again, if I don't manage to configure properly the video card then I'll just send the unit back and grab another one with better linux support, albeit, poorer games performance lol )

Last edited by gigel (2023-11-15 16:11:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

Most likely just the graphics doesn't show up, did you configure a display manager or should you boot to a terminal?

Try enabling modesetting on the nvidia driver https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … de_setting

Do you get more messages if you add debug to the kernel parameters?

Last edited by V1del (2023-11-15 12:26:50)

gigel

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

Hi and thanks for your input! For the moment I'm just trying to boot into CLI. completely disabled nvidia support in the kernel and then disabled framebuffer and quiet boot option. now the real culprit showed up: a dependency seems to be failing for /boot device. There's an error saying that a time out has occured for /dev/disk/by-uuid/blabla... so maybe i'm missing some fat32 module in the kernel, although I doubt it...

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

Or you're not booting the correct image/correct thing. Which bootloader did you opt for and can you show it's config and post from a chroot with the partitions mounted like you think they are correct

mount
cat /etc/fstab
ls -l /boot
lsblk -f

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

gigel

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

good call, I went as well on this route and found out that the ID of the /boot FS was wrong in /etc/fstab

/dev/nvme0n1p3: UUID="a6cbc9e9-e78a-49ff-a281-8835288a4d35" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="fc364779-8f52-3242-adfe-020c81b11bc6"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="C602-0F19" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="8a6074af-06d5-064a-9338-b9118e2d179d"

UUID=CA5B-F196      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

something changed the UUID of the boot device it seems

gigel

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

fixed the boot partition label and now everything starts fine. now heading to the difficult part, configuring X and nvidia drivers )

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

Make sure you follow the steps properly : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation

In any case if this is [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your initial post.

gigel

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus Zephyrus G16 support - missing /boot disk label

sure, I will keep this topic open once I'm done with everything, and will mark it SOLVED once done. or I can do this now, and start other threads in the future! thanks for your help!