[arch-general] Booting issues

[Fernando Fernandez]

El mar, 03-01-2012 a las 11:59 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió:
> Greetings! Just to give everyone a clue, this is not my first go-around
> with Linux, I'm an old hand of sorts, but this is my first time using
> ArchLinux, so please bare with me here.
> 
> My target install is an Asus A53E laptop (re-modeled K53E) and I am
> installing to an external USB Hard-Drive. The hard-drive is a 750GB
> Seagate 2.5" SATAII drive in an external enclosure. The target arch is
> x86_64.
> 
> I stepped though the install without incident, it moved along
> flawlessly, I accepted all the defaults and the dual-arch install
> preformed as intended. The problem arose when I went to reboot for the
> first time. Now, this laptop behaves strangely in that I can't just go
> into the BIOS and change the boot order to the external (it does not show
> up at
> all there, just the internal hard-drive and the dvd-ram) and everything
> stays
> the same, things truly are dynamic in this machine. I have to hit escape at
> the
> 'ASUS' boot logo (which I cannot turn off for the life of me!) several
> times,
> just to get the BBS menu to appear, from there, I can select the external,
> now
> once the external is selected I am presented with the grub menu as
> expected, I
> select the first menu option to boot the standard kernel and then it would
> immediately fail saying it couldn't read from a FAT partition, I was like
> WTF!?! It took me a little while to realize that I had to change the root
> entry
> from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), once I figured that out (about 5 reinstalls later)
> I
> got the message stating it was booting from the kernel, then it would
> immediately drop me to the recovery shell. This was WTF!?! moment #2. The
> first
> thing I did was to snoop /dev and all I could see was /dev/sda1-3. WTF!?!
> Moment #3! So I rebooted to the cd, remounted and chrooted into the new
> environment and rebuilt my CPIO archive (by far this was the easiest part!),
> after it was done, I rebooted again, no dice! I still get dropped
> immediately
> to the recovery prompt, and I still have no sdb (which is where the
> installer
> sees the external when on the install cd).
> 
> So I am at a loss as to what to do now. I spoke with a few people over at
> freenode/#archlinux and a john_f suggested that my issue may be related to
> the
> fact that this laptop is USB3 .... so WTF then, what am I missing in my cpio
> archive that is present in the installer image (which can see my external
> just
> fine!)
> 
> I copied some files from the chroot environment to my local web-server
> 
> http://69.116.93.166:2500/~chris/nix/arch/
> 
> If you have any more/other questions please don't hesitate to ask.
> > --
> 
> > Chris Brennan
> > A: Yes.
> > >Q: Are you sure?
> > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
> > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
> > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/
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try to change root=/dev/sdXY to root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/UUID in your
kernel/linux line in grub/grub2 config file.

this could help
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_a_USB_key
 
Sorry! my english it's not good.