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kierank01

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Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

I have an IBM x31, with no CD drive.

I have not been able to book form a usb stick.

I have installed arch on a hard drive in another laptop, using UUID's as the partition identifier.

When I place the hd in the x31, and boot from that, GRUB starts up, and starts the kernel, but it stops booting, as if cannot find the root filesystem.

any ideas?

Last edited by kierank01 (2010-06-17 11:05:46)

gamewolf

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

Can your post your menu.lst / grub.cfg file?

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

will do, when I get home from work....

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

boot device is: UUID="0c225beb-cc29-4b64-93b1-472b6b7dbb40"
root device is: UUID="029dce38-ccb7-4f01-90a3-1fe89ab0f734"

I am using 'grub1' so here is my menu.lst:

# 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.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/029dce38-ccb7-4f01-90a3-1fe89ab0f734 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/029dce38-ccb7-4f01-90a3-1fe89ab0f734 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

gamewolf

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

Well if it can't find it, it means that the uuid is changing for some reason...
When it stops booting, are there any errors?

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

Other than that it cannot find the root partition, no. It drops to a ramfs prompt, to allow recovery, but I do not know how to recover.

I think I will reinstall and use /dev/... as the partition identifiers, and see how it goes.

davidgurvich

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

Boot the computer and see what /dev/disk/by-id/ has, you might also try to manually use the old style name in the grub prompt.  I believe that model has an option for PXE boot and you might try an install doing that.

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

I have upgraded the bios from the existing windows installation, and can now boot from usb, so, the problem isn't an issue anymore.

Cheers.

KlavKalashj

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it's the same subject... I have a Via C3 mITX computer, and it wont boot from usb, and not cd either for some funny reasons. I but the drive in a laptop and installed, and it kind of worked. If I choose 'fallback' in grub I can boot normally, but the first choice I get the same, root device don't mount... it's the same uuid's, so it should work. This is on arch-i586 btw. Any ideas?

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

If you can boot, I would try regreating your init ramfs: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … mkinitcpio

I would hold onto the fallback until you fet the other one working.

KlavKalashj

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

If you can boot, I would try regreating your init ramfs: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Con … mkinitcpio

I would hold onto the fallback until you fet the other one working.

Thanks. I read from the link that fallback doesn't use autodetect, and becouse of that loads a lot of stuff. Is there a way to boot into fallback and see which module is the one that doesn't get loaded? I think that is the problem...

kierank01

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

not sure, but you could remove the autodetect hook, and recreate.

KlavKalashj

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Re: Problems installing on ibm x31 [Resolved]

not sure, but you could remove the autodetect hook, and recreate.

Yeah, that would probably work... what is the disadvantage of that? bigger kernel? The machine is a bit weak with only 256mb ram, but I guess it's no problem, I'm still not sure if it will be running X at all, so far.