Arch Linux

losthighway

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From: cologne / germany

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 3

arch stops during booting-process

hi guys,

this is my first post here after using archlinux 1 1/2 years...but i´m still a noob
hope you could help me...and sorry for my bad english

now my problem:

got a new pc:
cpu: intel core 2 duo e6600
mainboard: gigabyte ga-965p-ds3/s3
ram: 4gb ddr2 pc800
grafic: geforce 7950 gt 512mb
hdd: sata samsung 320gb
        ide maxtor 120gb

i installed the last "arch x86 64 iso", the installation works fine, but after reboot arch hangs on "loading udev uevents"
i´ve got no idea what the problem could be...hope anyone could help me and if you need further information just tell me

thanx

dh_swing

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 5

Re: arch stops during booting-process

Had the same issue last night on some PXE/NFS clients I use after upgrade.

I finally ended up manually re-installing mkinitcpio (pacman -S mkinitpcio), remade my initramfs, and the machines worked again.

I have no idea why this may have remedied my problem, but I'm guessing incompatibilities between udev in the initramfs and the real root?

HTH

losthighway

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From: cologne / germany

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 3

Re: arch stops during booting-process

thanks for your reply...

i did a pacman -S mkinitcpio, but how do i remade my initramfs?

just reinstalling the mkinitcpio didn´t change anything...

kcbanner

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 43

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Re: arch stops during booting-process

I am getting this same error.

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klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: arch stops during booting-process

if you're running the stock arch-kernel, as root:

# mkinitcpio -p kernel26

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kcbanner

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-28

Posts: 43

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Re: arch stops during booting-process

adding load_modules=off as a boot param gets past this, but you have to load modules manually then.

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psych

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Registered: 2007-06-04

Posts: 19

Re: arch stops during booting-process

Just blacklist the module intel_agp and everything works fine...
intel_agp freezes with 4 GB Ram...

Psych

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losthighway

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From: cologne / germany

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 3

Re: arch stops during booting-process

thanks guys...you´re great...

the intel_agp causes the freeze...
now i got a nice boot-process :-)

...but now i got another problem...

when i installed arch i used the ftp-install...
arch recogniced my network and everthing was fine...
and now, after install arch doesn´t work with my ethernetcard...

i´ve got a
onboard Marvell 88E8056 phy ethernetcard

...what is the module i need? how do i get it to work?

tcmdvm

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From: Columbia, TN USA

Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 40

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Re: arch stops during booting-process

You might be able to boot off the install disk and get to the command prompt. Instead of running setup, type "dmesg | more" and see if you can find what module is loading when the ethernet card starts.

You might also type "lsmod | more" and be able to find the name of the module to load in your rc.conf file.