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atelien48

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From: France

Registered: 2025-07-20

Posts: 1

Can't use the laptop's eMMC to install Arch system (init issue ?)

Hi all ! :D

I'm trying to install arch on a laptop (Lenovo 14w Gen 2) . When it comes to partitionning step, on archinstall or manually with fdisk, it does not show the internal eMMc drive (wich is the on board disk), so i can't install arch locally.
Only the installation drive appears (an NVME M.2 disk).

Note : i use the NVME as an install drive with Ventoy, because i don't have the BIOS password and the USB option is not enabled. (i own this computer)

When i look into the boot log, i can find a few lines that speaks about the controller not getting to init :

 
[    3.598170] ACPI: video: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[    3.601761] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:0c/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input4
[    3.610919] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    3.610928] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    3.654762] Key type psk registered
[    3.668743] mmc0: SDHCI controller on ACPI [AMDI0041:00] using ADMA
[    3.733490] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: SDHCI controller found [1217:8621] (rev 1)
[    3.734199] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000
[    3.748694] mmc1: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:03:00.0] using ADMA
[    3.751374] nvme 0000:02:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend
[    3.751689] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:02:00.0
[    3.758967] nvme nvme0: 4/0/0 default/read/poll queues
[    3.766054]  nvme0n1: p1 p2
[    3.782708] usbcore: registered new device driver r8152-cfgselector
[    3.824373] mmc0: mmc_select_hs400 failed, error -110
[    3.824422] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card
[    3.959213] r8152-cfgselector 2-3: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[    3.991019] mmc0: mmc_select_hs400 failed, error -110
[    3.991083] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card
[    4.117539] r8152 2-3:1.0 eth0: v1.12.13
[    4.117672] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[    4.145495] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[    4.155768] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8153_ecm
[    4.174739] mmc0: mmc_select_hs400 failed, error -110
[    4.174788] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card
[    4.402337] mmc0: mmc_select_hs400 failed, error -110
[    4.402381] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card
[    4.403636] mmc0: Failed to initialize a non-removable card
[    9.909633] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.

It seems like the system does not reaches the "kernel" integration of the devices.
I'm a bit lost, as I'm still new to this. The -110 error doesn't provide much information. I'm not sure whether it's a driver-level problem or something lower level.
The eMMC seems to work physically — I was able to install Windows on it. I'm not sure where to start debugging.

Here is the full dmseg :

Has anyone looked into this before? Thanks in advance :)

Have a great day

rantanran

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-12-20

Posts: 19

Re: Can't use the laptop's eMMC to install Arch system (init issue ?)

Did you check this thread?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=272741

Maybe it's related to your problem.