[arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck

[Jude DaShiell]

Because I want the sound card operational on first boot.  I have two 
sets of speakers connected to the computer when I failed on that first 
install.  So I disconnected the usb set and the install failed again 
with the same error.  Finally after each install, I boot into arch and 
don't hear grub beep or any sound after that.  It could be the torrent I 
used was hacked since grub at least should have beeped even if the sound 
card didn't work.  Now it's possible I may need to use the be my eyes 
app on my iPhone to examine the screen for me to see if archlinux can't 
for some reason find the sound card and was maybe asking for some 
assistive input from me to get it going.

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, ?yvind Heggstad wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:00:58
> From: ?yvind Heggstad <mrelendig at har-ikkje.net>
> Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck
> 
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 07:27:11 -0500
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> After having run arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash one of the things I
>> do is to run alsactl store.
>> alsactl store returns error 125 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state no such
>> file or directory.  Certainly there's no such file since when alsa
>> was run before arch-chroot got run on system boot /mnt/var/lib/alsa
>> directory was empty having just run pacstrap on /mnt.  So since this
>> is supposed to work, could it be arch-chroot script fails to collect
>> and pass along enough of the right environment information to its
>> chrooted environment for alsactl store to run?  Details are available
>> at: information at:
>> http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=43f6670eb3bde26ad6491d2faa631625109f88d0
>>
>
> As a sidenote: Why are you running alsactl store inside the chroot?
>

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