August 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Quick btrfs-root question
by Jameson 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

I apologize if I've missed it somewhere, but does grub support booting from a multi-device btrfs root sub-volume without a separate /boot? According to the wiki I think it's supposed to work, but when I chroot to that root, and run grub-install, it returns: Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting. I left the chroot, and installed grub to that disk from my old root, but it won't boot from my new volume. Does anyone have some advice, or should I just move to a separate /boot? Thanks, =-Jameson

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.4.7 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] migrating crypttab to new way / luks swap problem
by Genes MailLists 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

I am fully up to date on testing repo. I have a laptop with encrypted /home and swap. Both are luks. When I convert /etc/cryptab /home works fine but swap fails at boot time with Unlocking of swap failed. Legacy /etc/cryptab (works but get legacy warnings) home /dev/sda5 ASK swap /dev/sda7 ASK New /etc/cryttab (swap fails) home /dev/sda5 none luks,timeout=0 swap /dev/sda7 none swap,luks Can anyone suggest how I can fix my swap line? thanks! gene

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[arch-general] BTRFS USB key fails to boot
by Kyle 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Trying to install Arch on a USB key, I am having trouble getting a bootable system. I created a basic BTRFS filesystem and mounted it with SSD optimizations and compression. I didn't create any subvolumes or anything else that is said to be problematic when booting to a BTRFS filesystem. From that point, I followed the installation guide for a normal install. However, after reading the documentation for GRUB and Syslinux, my newly created install doesn't boot. I looked at the wiki entry for installing to a USB key, but it is still written for AIF and grub-legacy. However, the main difference I can find doesn't seem to apply, because although it mentions that the USB key where grub-legacy is installed is always hd0,0, grub2 is supposed to look for the UUID of the disk, which matches correctly in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. I also tried setting up this install to boot using Syslinux, but both bootloaders just drop me into some kind of shell and refuse to boot. Unfortunately, since I am visually impaired and use speech to install and use Arch, I am unable to see whether I am in a "normal shell" or a rescue shell, or even what kind of issue the bootloaders are having that keeps them from finding a kernel. Should I be using a different filesystem other than BTRFS, even though both bootloaders are said to support it? Should I not be using compression on my filesystem? Could this be a problem that is entirely unrelated to the filesystem I'm using? Any help is greatly appreciated. ~Kyle -- Kyle is a droid. The whole world knows it. This e-mail shows it.

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