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[arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update
by Mike Cloaked 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

If anyone can help or suggest links to solve the following problem I would appreciate it. I have a new system built with an Intel DQ77KB motherboard with a Crucial mSATA M4 SSD, and a Crucial SATA M4 SSD drive. I want to install arch on this system and indeed preparing a usbkey with the archiso install media using dd to write the usbkey boots just fine. Also the latest PartedMagic iso written to a usbkey also boots fine so that I can format the SSD drives (both of them). Looking at the system profile I can see all the peripherals, including all the RAM and both SSD drives. However before starting the arch install I want to update the firmware on the SSD drives. This is available from the Crucial website either as a Windows 7/8 .exe (which I can't use) or a "manual" firmware update file which is an iso (containing memdisk from syslinux, and a floppy image file boot2880.img) Running the "file" command on the boot2880.img file after loop mounting it gives: # file /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux/boot2880.img /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux/boot2880.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS Beta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 240, sectors 5760 (volumes <=32 MB) , sectors/FAT 9, serial number 0x2b6112fe, label: "BOOTABLE ", FAT (12 bit) Writing the iso to a usbkey won't boot - the screen goes blank and nothing happens when I write the iso to a usbkey with a FAT32 key with the boot flag. I have tried isolinux and that does not seem to work. I have tried a bootable grub2 usbkey and that does not work - all are prepared from a working arch linux laptop. I have following numerous "recipes" for making the usbkey from various sources on the web and none seem to work at all! The odd thing is that for syslinux I can't even get a menu item on the screen when booting the key - nor for grub 2. I have used two different makes of usbkey - both 4GB....same result - and both keys will boot fine with the archiso or PartedMagic. I don't know if I am doing something fundamentally stupid but this is driving me nuts! I have used gparted, as well as fdisk, as well as trying parted to reformat the usbkeys. Nothing I do seems to work! There must be a good step-by-step guide somewhere on how to get a usbkey with sysylinux to boot the firmware updater - which seems to have a floppy image file (boot2880.img) and uses memdisk to boot it - though the version on the iso file is about two year old whereas arch current memdisk in syslinux is up to date. If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- mike c

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Re: [arch-general] : powernow-k8 fails to load with linux 3.7.2
by Jesse Jaara 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

I think it was merged to the regular acpi driver

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[arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot
by gt 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot? Basically, i want a chrooted environment for testing some program. Alternatively, is there any other better way to create an isolated environment, apart from chroot and VMs.

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[arch-general] installing grub to empty harddisk
by G. Schlisio 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

hi list, i struggled to install grub into an empty hdd, which belongs to an other laptop with a broken cd drive and no usb boot option. i tried to uso grub-install, but that didnt work. how to install grub, so it works in the other laptop? georg

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[arch-general] Truecrypt mounting vanishes desktop icons
by Greg . 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

When i use truecrypt --mount /PATH/OF/FILE /home/usr/Desktop all of my folders vanish. I then tried to unmount using truecrypt -d /PATH/OF/FILE and nothing, but after reboot the folders are back on Desktop. Is there any way to be able to mount on Desktop but not lose my folders?

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[arch-general] [SOLVED] Polluted login prompt
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

With reference to an issue I raised on this ML earlier: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/032201.h… I was able to solve my issue by setting the service type (or unit type) of the systemd units that generate output after the login prompt to "idle". https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54247#c10 P.S. Apologies for the off-thread posting, I couldn't find the previous mail in my mail box. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe. http://sudaraka.org/

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[arch-general] Systemd 196-2 new install 100%cpu usage
by P .NIKOLIC 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hi . Just had to completely rebuild the system using the latest ISO . I am now getting CPU usage of 100% on 1 core 143 root 20 0 721m 131m 22m R 00.0 2.1 16:30.31 systemd-journal is the line from top systemd version 196-2 all the latest updates . Journal --verify reports file corruption detected at /var/log/journal/dir-name/system.journal:87210024 (of94937088, 91%) Any help as it makes the system way slow when loading any documents . Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.6.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 18 08:57:15 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] systemd automount + wake-on-lan dependency
by Sander Jansen 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

I want my media pc to automatically mount several samba shares when they're accessed. In addition it also needs to wake-up the other machine if it is currently suspended via WOL. >From a forum post on xbmc.org (1) I know this can be done using autofs, but I'd like to see if this can be using systemd alone. I know systemd can handle the automounting, but what about the WOL? Is it as simple as merely providing a dependency to the specific automount service file to first do the WOL? A oneshot unit? Or perhaps part of the same unit file with ExecStartPre (if there is such a thing in a automount file)? Any hints or tips? Thanks, Sander [1] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=118164

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[arch-general] Incorporate udev rules in initrd
by Christoph Vigano 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hey guys, I set the sensitivity of my Thinkpad X230i laptop trackpoint with an udev rule setting the values in sysfs fitting for me. One drawback of this solution is that this rule I wrote is not incorporated inside of the intird, so when I start up, the udev of initrd already recognized the trackpoint and my rule in the booted-up system is ignored. My workaround for this is to manually do "udevadm trigger", which bugs the hell out of me. How can I tell mkinitcpio to include a custom udev rule? Do I need to write a hook for that? How can a hook for this look like? Thanks in advance! Christoph

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[arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help
by Genes Lists 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Using testing repos - was fully updated and all working fine. Then picked up the latest 3.7.2-1 kernel along with kdebase 4.9.5-2/ Rebooting after this latest update fails - it cannot find the root device and drops to "recovery shell". ls /dev/sdb1 (the usual root device) is def missing at that point. The recovery option does not boot either. What I tried: I booted 2013.01.04 arch install media - did a chroot as per the wiki - and attempted to roll back the kernel using pacman on the 3.7.1 package I get several errors: warning could not get filesystem information for things like: /run/archiso/bootmnt /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd /run is empty - and /sys/fs/cgroup is empty As per the chroot wiki /sys is mounted from the install via mount -t sysfs sys sys/ pacman continues beyond these warnings but fails with: ==> building image from preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinux-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img ERROR: invalid kernel specified: '/boot/vmlinux-linux' same error from ;fallback'. I am hoping I can install 3.7.1 kernel and boot again - instead of a new install. If anyone can offer some guidance I'd be appreciative ... thank you gene

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