[arch-general] Archiso, archiso_early, and udev issues with live cd

[Heiko Baums]

Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:42:25 +0100
schrieb Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst at gmail.com>:

> I'm attempting to create my own Arch Live CD and I can't get the
> archiso hook to complete successfully.
> 
> In March 2010, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi removed the archiso_early hook
> from archiso.git, which used to mount /dev/archiso (I'm not entirely
> sure what this pointed to, but it's clearly required). In the commit
> message he said it was removed because we could rely
> on /dev/disk/by-label to get the device (created by udev).
> 
> However I have built a custom live CD using mkarchiso and there is no
> /dev/disk available to me, so this boot process fails.
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone knew why this is missing, and what I
> can do to get this booting?
> 
> My mkinitcpio.conf file looks like this:
> 
> *HOOKS="base udev memdisk archiso archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_loop_mnt
> pata scsi sata usb fw pcmcia filesystems usbinput"*

Is it this bug?
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231

If you get the ramfs$ prompt you can as a workaround run `udevadm
trigger` wait a few seconds and then enter `exit`.

Heiko