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Hi,
I just installed Arch on my Asus EEE 701SD. Since GRUB is extremely slow (takes about 30-45 seconds from "loading..." to menu) I've set up my /boot on a separate flash drive. However, booting the new installation gives me the "FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED" + maintenance shell. I've tried running fsck with various options but none of it has helped. Apparently, the partition is clean so I'm not quite sure what's going on. Any suggestions?
Cheers:)
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you might have to include the modules for the flash drive in your initcpio image.
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Thanks for your reply. I tried including usb in my HOOKS in mkinitcpio.conf but it didn't help. What could be the necessary module that needed to be specified in mkinitcpio.conf?
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Put it in the MODULES part, not the HOOKS part. They are two separate things.
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Yep, I get that:) You mean I should include "usb" in the MODULES part?
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Yes, since usb is a module, not a hook.
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"usb" doesn't seem to be a valid module
ERROR: module 'usb' not found
Could the relevant module have another name?
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I tried to comment out the line refering to the flash drive in fstab and now it boots! The question is, then, what could be causing the error to occur when the line is uncommented?
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The hook "usb" should work too, so I don't think we're on the right track here. But since it doesn't hurt you can add the actual kernel modules to the modules= line:
usbcore ehci-hcd (and/or uhci-hcd) usb-storage and maybe the filesystem used (and it's dependencies like ciphers).
Greets,
demian
// I guess I'm a slow typer. Why don't you show us your /etc/fstab?
From what you've written the system shouldn't be able to boot since there's no fstab entry for /boot. Maybe I misunderstood you.
Last edited by demian (2010-06-07 23:00:48)
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The relevant lines read:
UUID=id_of_internal_drive / ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=id_of_sd_card /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
When I comment out the second line regarding the sd card it boots without problems. Furthermore, if I put in "auto" instead of specifying "ext2" it also boots without any problems...
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weird.
well, the main thing is that it works, right?
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True If anyone has an idea about what might be causing this please make a comment.
Cheers!
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check
ls /media/
do you have any usbhd-something (your hd and partition number) ?
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Hi. Sorry about the late reply - have been away a couple of days. No, I don't have any other devices than cd, dvd, and fl listed there.
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