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HelveticaStandard

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Registered: 2024-05-30

Posts: 3

Help installing arch on Hp laptop

I am new to the arch board. I have in the past installed Arch Linux to my desktop many times I'm the past. But I bought an Hp laptop for out of the house netbook type work. As a diehard Linux user, I instantly installed Linux to it. Ofc I tried and installed a wide range of distros to use. The only distros I have gotten to work is Lmde and Debian.

My issue stems from not up to date package for my hardware. I bought this laptop brand new in hopes of installing arch to it. The issue with getting arch installed is due to the fact it uses Universal Flash Storsge (Ufs as it's commonly called by Samsung). The install process works perfectly,  the issue stems from booting said install. It drops down to a shell command line with no hopes of getting anything done with it.

There is a flag in the kernel for a ufs thing, but I do not know how to change the kernel's parameters, and it might be for the Unix file system (the hell scape of looking ufs up). 

I'm not sure if I need a custom kernel/install of gentoo. But I hope one of you knows what to do.

Nikolai5

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From: North West, England, UK

Registered: 2024-01-27

Posts: 275

Re: Help installing arch on Hp laptop

Kernel parameters can be set be set as described in this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters
So if you use GRUB, they can be set in the /etc/default/grub file.
For example, I disabled zswap via a kernel parameter and so I entered that on this line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cryptdevice=UUID=4642e939-5b89-421e-83c2-df700ba6b4c8:root zswap.enabled=0 rootfstype=ext4"

Perhaps this article will be helpful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … ble_medium I know it's not exactly what you're doing, but it sounds like the hardware resembles a removable drive, despite being internal.

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,085

Re: Help installing arch on Hp laptop

What is the exact model of the laptop ?

This sounds like you may be missing a kernel module on the install that is present on the installation medium.

What are the outputs of

$ lsblk -f
$ lsmod
$ lspci -k

while booted to the install environment ?
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … ted_client for methods to upload outputs & logfiles.

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