[arch-general] archlinux hardware question

Ray Rashif schiv at archlinux.org
Mon Nov 29 10:51:04 CET 2010


On 29 November 2010 05:22, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or
> a full-sized usb drive yet.  Another Linux system I have couldn't even
> detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive
> too.  Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an
> earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.

Hi Jude

I think you probably need to edit mkinitcpio.conf with the right
hooks, like this:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata sata scsi usb filesystems"


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