Arch Linux

scales

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 22

eee arch install not unmounting sd cleanly on shutdown

hey all.  i have an eee 701 and an sd card.  the setup is as follows:

sda=ssd
sdb=sd card

sda1  has xp installed
sdb1  has a fat32 partition for extra xp space and programs
sdb2 is ext2 with arch installed

1. anytime i shutdown arch it seems that the sd card is not unmounted cleanly.  as a result a disc check is forced.  what can i do to unmount cleanly when rebooting or shutting down?

2. Also i have grub installed to the mbr of the sd card and i am trying to boot the arch custom linux eee kernel.  things seem ok for a second, but soon after i get past grub i get the following error:

kernel panic -not syncing: vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

now in my grub entry for the custom kernel i tried to mimic exactly what the default kernel that works has except i did not include that last bit about initrd whatever.  does anyone have any ideas about how i could fix this?

Last edited by scales (2008-07-16 21:17:16)

scales

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Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 22

Re: eee arch install not unmounting sd cleanly on shutdown

here is my menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/hda        (hd0)
#  /dev/hdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/hda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

#EEE Arch Linux
title Arch-EEE-Kernel
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuzeee root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/77d790de-b479-450b-a4c5-aa54ab022a8f ro

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1) 
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/77d790de-b479-450b-a4c5-aa54ab022a8f ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/77d790de-b479-450b-a4c5-aa54ab022a8f ro