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#1 2010-02-02 08:17:06

ksemeks
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Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

So, here's the deal. I got a eee 701, i upgraded ram(2g), and now i wanna put archlinux on it, but it wont boot, actually it starts booting, but it stops at: 'waiting for udev uevents to be processed', but it doesnt freeze, i can type, go to newline, etc, but it wont go further.
My sd card is in the eee, might this be causing the problem?

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#2 2010-02-02 10:29:20

parintachin
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

have you checked the md5sum of the install-media ?
i'm writing this from my eeepc 701 (installed on sdhc-card by the way) so arch work really well an an eee.
hope that helps

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#3 2010-02-02 17:22:27

ksemeks
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

well, it worked, only it took a little longer for udev. but after the first boot, the other reboot just flew by..
but when i shut down the eee for 4 hours, and then booted it again, the udev took his time too..

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#4 2010-02-02 17:59:42

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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

edit:
i figured now it waits 180s when sd card is inserted(timeout), but when it isnt, it pass right through..
so why is timeout present when sd card is inserted?

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#5 2010-02-02 18:55:23

parintachin
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

it looks like your card-reader needs time to settle after boot, could be because you don't have usb in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ?
my hooks line looks like this:
HOOKS="base udev usb autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
but i need usb in there because i installed on sdhc card ( the card reader in internaly via usb ).

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#6 2010-02-03 08:05:27

ksemeks
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

well, now it passes the timeout, but when i try to mount it, it is not in /dev/sdbx ..does it have some other name?

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#7 2010-02-03 08:56:03

parintachin
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

when the card is present please make fdisk -l and post the output.
btw. how are you trying to mount it ?

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#8 2010-02-03 08:59:09

ksemeks
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

When the sd card is inserted, i cant find it in /dev.
I try to mount it with mount /dev/sdb1 /x/y, but it isnt present ..
On the other laptop i can mount the sd card..

Fdisk -l  shows only
/dev/sda1 /boot
/dev/sda2 /

Last edited by ksemeks (2010-02-03 08:59:41)

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#9 2010-02-03 13:55:07

parintachin
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

the output of fdisk -l should look somthing like this
fdisk -l

Platte /dev/sda: 4001 MByte, 4001292288 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 486 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaebcaebc

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         300     2409718+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             301         484     1477980   83  Linux
/dev/sda3             485         485        8032+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4             486         486        8032+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Platte /dev/sdb: 8239 MByte, 8239710208 Byte
193 Köpfe, 23 Sektoren/Spur, 3625 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 4439 × 512 = 2272768 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000843a4

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        3625     8045676   83  Linux

you can also whatch dmesg before and after putting in the card

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#10 2010-02-03 14:56:36

ksemeks
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Re: Asus EEE 701 4G stuck when booting

Yes, i know how the output od fdisk -l looks like, its just i didnt wanted to copy all, so i just copied the relevant data, and that is that the output prints out only the sda.

So here is the piece od dmesg when i insert the SD card:

sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 15564800 512-byte logical blocks: (7.96 GB/7.42 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through 
sdb : sdb1

ls /dev/sdb [TAB]
sdb

there is no sdb1. and when i hit fdisk -l or cfdisk -l, it stops, i hit ctrl+c, nothing happens, it continuos only when i pull out the sd card..
any ideas?

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