[arch-general] Boot Device Didn't Show Up

Heiko Baums lists at baums-on-web.de
Sun Jan 24 03:01:58 EST 2010


Am Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:43:42 -0500
schrieb Carlos Williams <carloswill at gmail.com>:

> Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on
> my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error:
> 
> Waiting for boot device...
> Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds...
> Falling back to interactive prompt.
> You can try and fix the problem manually, log out when you're
> finished. ramfs$
> 
> The same ISO works perfect on my laptop and other PC's but on my
> personal $1,000 PC, it doesn't. I can't figure this out. I also tried
> the 2009.08 Core disk and I get the same thing as with the 'Netinst'
> disk.
> 
> I don't know if it's because I have a S-ATA DVD-ROM drive on this
> machine. I can boot from disk and see the Arch install options...even
> play "Space Invaders". But when I select the install Arch Linux
> options, it boots into a 'Live' environment and then hangs on the
> error above. Someone please help...

See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231?project=6

You should be able to continue booting by entering these commands
at the ramfs$ prompt:
udevadm trigger
exit

It's not a fix but a workaround. And this bug really needs to be fixed
because PCs nowadays are usually SATA only systems.

Greetings,
Heiko


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