Arch and E17

What is the best way to install E17 on arch? The build script on aur (cvs), the thakhis repo (cvs),... ?
The wiki-guide seems to be out of date... which packages schould I install after installing the main E17-group?
Last edited by Gentleman (2008-01-08 12:06:21)

theringmaster wrote:but we have a stable one in the repo (extra?).  FYI
the e17 packages live in [community] and are part of a repo cleanup discussion.

Similar Messages

  • Arch with E17 or Elive?

    Hi all
    this is my first message to this forum and I am a newbie to Linux in general. I would like to congratulate witth all of you for the work you are doing. I am an admirer of Linux developers and users.
    I know you guys are in the majority gurus so please be patient. I hope this forum is better than other linux forums I have seen recently.
    My question is: I am planning to nuke my windows and to switch to Linux after having tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu. I saw E17 and I think I want to use that DE. Now, the options I seem to like is to use Arch with E17 or Elive. Both would be E17 and they are both reportedly very fast distros.
    Honestly, what would you suggest me? Elive seems to be stable (Debian-based) and born with E17, but have really few people taking part in the forums and they are not really helpful, while Arch seems to be more difficult, maybe less stable but the community seem better. Also what are the longtime prospects for both distros in your opinion? I mean I wouldn't like to switch distro in one year from now just because the developers can't make it anymore... I also like that Arch is famous for its good documentation... I really like to have something read.
    Any opinion would be appreciated, but please no rtfm
    Cheers from Toronto
    Cippa

    I have no experience with Elive, but used Debian for some time.
    The development cycle in Debian was TOO SLOW!  Debian's quest for stability, while noble and effective, leaves users with ancient versions of software for far to long a time for my taste.  Arch often times has new versions ready before I even knew they were released.
    Add in 'package hell' with old versions of packages and libraries trying to mix with newer and user built packages, and it leaves me foaming at the mouth
    Arch not only is way ahead of the pack when it comes to keeping current, it's package management is top notch.  I can't imagine living life in Linux without pacman now that I have been using it this long.
    As a long time distro-hopper, the fact that I have used the same flavor of Linux for over a year is a testament to the power Arch has.  It is certainly worth taking for a spin.
    Edit: Also, Arch was the first distro that I used that made me feel comfortable enough to take windows clean off of the system.  All the other ones made me cling to the security blanket.  After using arch for a month or 2 I realized I never booted windows anymore, and it was simply wasting disk space.
    Last edited by KerowynM (2007-04-12 17:21:25)

  • What's the best way to partition my disk with Vista, Arch, and data?

    Hey everybody, I'm in a bit of a quandary here and I'd love a bit of help.
    I have a 320 GB hdd on my new laptop. I want to dual boot Windows Vista and Arch, with a shared partition for data in between. I have Windows Vista installed with 110 GB of unallocated space. (Windows, being a piece of crap, has gone and locked some stupid system files at the end of its partition, completely preventing me from shrinking it any further.)
    Vista has hogged two partitions for itself. One is C:, and I know what that's for; the other is D:, and I have no idea what lives on it. (In the off chance that anyone here knows, I'd actually like to find out what D: is doing there. It takes up 77 MB, 65 MB of which is empty, and is always "in use," and yet Vista's file manager says there's nothing in it.)
    ANYWAY: Vista's taken up two partitions, and I need at least two for Arch: / and swap. Ideally, I'd like to have one for /home as well, but i don't know if that possible. I also really, really want to have a shared partition for music and documents and such for both OSes.
    I thought at first I could stick all of Arch into an extended partition, but I read here that they can't be booted from. It doesn't make any sense to put my data partition into an extended partition, and Windows won't work either. What should my partition scheme be, since I apparently am going to need to put 5 primary partitions on one disk?
    If you've gone this far, thanks for reading my wall of text. Any advice you can give would be deeply appreciated.
    UPDATE: Okay, after doing a bit more research, I've read in a couple of places that Linux can be installed to a logical partition as long as I make sure GRUB (installed, I assume, on /dev/sda) points to it. Can anyone confirm this?
    Last edited by wirenik (2008-11-29 07:27:46)

    wirenik,
    You can't have 5 primary partitions.  4 max, or 3 primary partitions, and a bunch of logical partitions grouped inside an extended partition.  Arch will gladly install into a logical partition.  (Yes, it will boot just fine too )
    If you currently have 2 partitions, you could create one more primary, then use the rest of the disk as an extended partition.  You will then be able to create as many logical partitions as you want (well, a bunch anyway).
    Something like this:
    /dev/sda1 (primary, Windows C)
    /dev/sda2 (primary, Windows D)
    /dev/sda3 (primary, Arch root)
    --- Extended partition ---
    /dev/sda5 (logical, Arch /home)
    /dev/sda6 (logical, swap)
    /dev/sda7 (logical, shared data)
    Last edited by peart (2008-11-29 07:26:07)

  • Arch and Win7 cannot open an NTFS partition created by the other

    This is almost certainly related to another post where I was struggling to create logical partitions from Windows. Basically, Linux and Minitool Partition Wizard agreed that there were no logical partitions, but the built-in Windows disk utility said there was. I ended up using fdisk from Arch install media, and Minitool and Arch now both saw the logical partitions (Windows shows a big extended partition of free space). I installed Arch just fine, can boot to it and win7... life is good.
    Not so much. A key to my setup is having an encrypted partition to share data between OS's. I used TrueCrypt with great success on my former laptop and am now having great difficulty!
    Some preliminary information:
    # fdisk -l /dev/sda
    Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disklabel type: dos
    Disk identifier: 0x1e6513b3
    Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
    /dev/sda1 * 2048 2101247 2099200 1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda2 2101248 172433407 170332160 81.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda3 172433408 390537215 218103808 104G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda4 390537216 500118191 109580976 52.3G 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 390539264 391587839 1048576 512M 83 Linux
    /dev/sda6 391589888 500118191 108528304 51.8G 83 Linux
    I also went partition by partition to check Minitool's agreement on sectors (they match perfectly with the exception that it doesn't show the extended /dev/sda4 container). I triple checked the Minitool partition info properties as you can't copy and paste from it's window, and pasted the fdisk output to minimize errors. I'm showing a column for mini/Arch for both start/stop sectors, and just subtracted them to make sure I got 0. Appears to be perfect alignment:
    | part | start (mini) | start (arch) | diff | | end (mini) | end (arch) | diff |
    |------+--------------+--------------+------+---+------------+------------+------|
    | sda1 | 2048 | 2048 | 0 | | 2101247 | 2101247 | 0 |
    | sda2 | 2101248 | 2101248 | 0 | | 172433407 | 172433407 | 0 |
    | sda3 | 172433408 | 172433408 | 0 | | 390537215 | 390537215 | 0 |
    | sda4 | 390539264 | 390539264 | 0 | | 391587839 | 391587839 | 0 |
    | sda5 | 391589888 | 391589888 | 0 | | 500118191 | 500118191 | 0 |
    - Screenshot of how Minitool sees my disk
    - Screenshot of how Windows disk utility sees my disk
    I used TrueCrypt 7.1a on both OS's. I created a non-system encrypted partition using the GUI on Arch with the AES cipher/sha-512 hash, with filesystem as "none." Once created I did:
    $ sudo cryptesetup --type tcrypt open /dev/sda3 vault
    That worked fine, which I followed with:
    $ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/mapper/vault
    It initialized the device with zero's and then gave me the success/have a nice day message. Closed the volume and rebooted. When I tried to open the device from win7, I got "Incorrect password or not a TrueCrypt volume." Hmmm. I guess I'll try in reverse. I duplicated the procedure exactly as above from win7, this time having TrueCrypt automatically format with NTFS. All succeeds and I can open the device. Reboot into Arch and I get the same message from TrueCrypt! If I try with cryptsetup, it's "No device header detected with this passphrase."
    Next, I tried just doing NTFS with no encryption. From Arch:
    $ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda3
    All goes well and I can mount it. I boot into Windows and it's not even listed! I used Minitool to issue it a drive letter, at which point clicking that pops up a windows dialog box asking me if I want to format the disk. Format the partition with NTFS in Windows, reboot into Arch and I get:
    [jwhendy@arch_zbook ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/scratch/
    NTFS signature is missing.
    Failed to mount '/dev/sda3': Invalid argument
    The device '/dev/sda3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
    Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
    partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
    Doesn't matter if I add "-t ntfs" or "-t ntfs-3g." I get the same result.
    Just to add a couple more oddities... when I created the NTFS partition in Arch, I also created a file called vault.tc as a TrueCrypt file-based encrypted container. My thinking was that the issue was with TrueCrypt full-partitions and that I could get around it with a plain partition containing an encrypted file. Reboot into windows and the partition isn't shown (as stated above). From Minitool, if I right click the partition and choose "Explore," it lists the partition contents and there is my vault.tc file. Windows thinks it's unformatted!
    I noticed the option to backup/restore a TrueCrypt header, and gave a shot at backing up the working TrueCrypt setup on windows to a flash drive, booting to Arch, and then restoring the /dev/sda3 header from the flash drive file. Arch still couldn't open it.
    Lastly, I noticed when I go to select a device to encrypt in TrueCrypt, my logical partitions aren't showing up (just like Windows only sees the end of the disk as free space). I just can't help but think something is tweaked in the partition table... basically:
    - TrueCrypt sees what Windows sees
    - Arch sees what Minitool sees
    How could I go about diagnosing further or fixing the issue. This is driving me crazy!
    I'd hate to do this given that I already setup my wm, configs, packages, etc... but my last resort attempt would be to wipe my logical partitions and see if I can at least get the win7 disk utility, minitool, arch, and truecrypt to like each other with respect to /dev/sda1-3... and then try to re-add the logicals afterward and re-install arch? I honestly don't know why this would be any different, but was just a thought. The issues from the other post seem to arise with logical partitions not being recognized the same between win/linux.
    Or figure out how to just use primaries (like dedicated boot on a USB drive or something). Or fiddle with growing/shrinking windows to see if I can undo whatever is telling windows where/what things are? Really grasping at straws here.
    Last edited by jwhendy (2015-06-10 23:32:22)

    Hi Ramesh,
    Please install the hotfix package and test the issue again:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2817576/en-us
    In addition, try uncheck the option “confirm open after download” per:
    http://jritmeijer.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/some-files-can-harm-your-computer-if-the-file-information-looks-suspicious-or-you-do-not-fully-trust-the-source-do-not-open-the-file/
    Regards,
    Rebecca Tu
    TechNet Community Support

  • [Success] Dual Booting Arch and Windows 7 [Advice / Confirmation]

    So I have been trying to get Starcraft II to work with wine and no luck.
    I have decided to install windows back on my computer, besides it might come in handy since I'm heading back to school soon.
    Anyways I have tried dual booting arch and windows in the past, and my results have never been stable.
    Today I will try using the program gparted.
    Let me give you my thoughts on how I plan to go through this and please give me some advice so I don't loose everything I have worked for on my linux box
    1.Currently I have two hard drives, one for all my main programs and one for my media files (mounting usb, dvd, etc, and it actually has no files in it xD).
       I plan to use gparted to re-size my second harddrive (media drive), create an extended partition, and a logical ntfs partition within it.
    2.I pop in my windows cd that I recieved with my laptop and install it on the space I have partitioned for windows.
    3. If my grub gets wiped out my windows (which I hope it doesn't not sure how the MBR stuff works) I insert a Ubuntu live cd and do
    sudo grub
    > root (hd0,0)
    > setup (hd0)
    > exit
    4.Configure grub to boot windows 7.
    5.Be happy with no headache.
    SO....
    If someone with past experience with dual booting windows and arch could please give me some advice, as I do not want to lose all my data, start over, and have another headache.
    I know I must learn to backup arch, which I will before september.
    But if anyone has any protips, or sees a flaw in my plan please point it out!!!
    Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and even more if advice has been given to boost my confidence!
    For now I will wait
    Thank you fellow archies.
    Last edited by Jabrick (2011-07-03 01:29:36)

    satanselbow wrote:
    1) Windows must be installed to a primary partition - attempting to install it to an logical partition will result in an epic fail
    2) Physically disconnect the harddrive you do not want windows on as windows typically installs the bootloader on the 1st hardisk (ie /sda) regardless of installation drive (ie /sdb)
    3 / 4) Complete the windows installation then reattached your Arch drive and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (as root) pointing the W7 entry to (hd1,0) - no need to reinstall grub
    5) Hey it's windows - anything could happen
    If you create an NTFS partition right at the beginning of the the drive before you start the W7 install you can prevent it greedily using up 2 of you 4 primary partitions - I would also completely update you new W7 installation past SP1 before reattaching the other drive to further prevent W7 going mental
    satanselbow thank you so much!
    Everything works great I had no stumbles, and I hope no problems in the future!!
    I will post exactly what I did in case someone has the same issue.
    1. Partition you're secondary harddrive as primary ntfs with gparted
    2. Reboot, and if you get a file system check error, check you're udev rules. (For my case in particular I had to change the udev rules I got for auto mounting usb, ext harddrive, etc.
    3.Power off your computer and physically remove the harddrive that contains all your linux goodies
    4. Plug in your windows cd and install in the partition you created
    5. Update your windows OS
    6. Plug in Ubuntu live CD and reboot
    7. Use commands to get grub to overwrite the windows boot loader (In my case I put grub everyone hd0,0 hd0,1 just to be sure, but you might want to do things cleaner)
    8. Reboot and see if grub loads up
    9. Use Ubuntu live CD again and launch Gparted, select the boot to your extra linux space (if you had one, not sure if this is needed)
    10. Plug in your linux harddrive and reconfigure /boot/grub/menu.lst and your good to go
    Once again shout outs to satanselbow!!! For without him I might've failed brutally!
    Cheers!

  • Dual booting Arch and Ubuntu

    Hi, I would like to dual boot Arch and Ubuntu using GRUB2.
    I already have Arch, set up as it's described in the Beginner's Guide, with GRUB2 installed. How would I go about dual booting Ubuntu, preferably without overwriting the existing bootloader?
    I haven't tried anything yet, but the problem that I can see is resizing my /home; is this possible on the Ubuntu liveDVD? If not, would I be able to resize /home with my gParted liveCD?
    Unfortunately, I have no backup media to use, so I wouldn't be able to transfer anything away as a backup.
    Here is my partition table:
    %lsblk
    NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE       RO TYPE      MOUNTPOINT
    sda      8:0       0        931.5G   0    disk
    ├─sda1   8:1    0        30G        0    part       /
    ├─sda2   8:2    0        12G        0    part       [SWAP]
    ├─sda3   8:3    0        5M          0    part
    └─sda4   8:4    0        889.5G   0    part       /home
    sda1 is my root partition, sda2 is swap, sda3 is GRUB's boot partition, which I was told that I needed in the guide, and sda4 (/home) occupies the "rest of the disk".
    I am using a GPT-partitioned drive, as I read this has many advantages and I do not plan to triple-boot Windows.
    So, can someone tell me what I do if I want to dual boot Ubuntu? I'm very sorry if this should have been posted on the Ubuntu forums, but I'm just more familiar with Arch, and I already have it installed. Please ask if you need any other files like my fstab. I have my Ubuntu liveDVD, GParted live CD (and Arch CD) at hand.
    Thanks in advance, rberyl.
    (Also, does anyone else think it's a bit of a backwards thing to put the output of "date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'" as a sign-up question? )
    Last edited by rberyl (2012-12-29 11:45:23)

    Hi rberyl,
    You can change your partitions using an inbuilt tool like cfdisk, or if you'd prefer a GUI gparted can be installed from the Arch repos. This will allow you to shrink sda4, and set up the new partitions for your Ubuntu OS. Although this shouldn't cause any data loss, its best practice to back up just in case.
    When installing Ubuntu, be sure to opt-out of bootloader creation. I think you have to use the alternate installation media to get this option. You can add your Ubuntu partition to the existing bootloader by running osprober (available from the repos) and then running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg . Alternatively, you can manually edit your GRUB config. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … NU.2FLinux for instructions.
    Good luck!
    Last edited by smazza (2012-12-29 16:04:08)

  • Arch and Slack - What's the difference?

    I'm from the Ubuntu camp.  I've been using Linux for close to three years now and getting bored.  I desperately need something more complicated.
    My question is - what's the difference between Arch and Slackware?  I've used Slackware in the past.  I also tried out Zenwalk recently.

    Slackware requires more effort from the user. But you learn quiet a bit as the reward. It takes a different approach for package management. (varies on the package management tools you use). Slackware is less bleeding edge than Arch, as it focuses on a slower release schedule. (to stablise, I guess...But I do note that it pays off, as I hear stories of people upgrading from ver 9 to ver 11 without too much trouble).
    Arch strikes a balance between sufficiently difficult enough to learn from, but not too tedious or time consuming to maintain. Its straightforward. The key seems to be pacman and ABS. Personally, it feels like Debian, but faster and more bleeding edge. (With no politics and internal squabbles which affect the date of major releases).
    What drove me from Ubuntu/OpenSUSE to Arch, was that both those distros reminded me of Windows. *shivers*
    As in, they assumed you want "this and that" enabled and installed by default. So a default install of Ubuntu had alot of stuff I never asked for. (If I wanted HP drivers and Bittorent stuff, I'll install it myself!)
    There's also the fact (after trying Debian "Etch"), Ubuntu is really nothing more than Debian with changes to make things easier for the Linux beginner. Some joke this distro as "Ubuntu is an African word meaning: Can't install Debian". (In that respect, they are right)
    For me, I enjoy distros like Slackware, Debian, Arch, etc...Because they don't assume I want a bunch of apps I didn't ask for. As well, they don't challenge me but they don't make it really time consuming.
    Nothing beats a fresh clean base install, and building a system the way you want!
    I mainly stick to Arch because I like the way the project is going.

  • Font differences between Arch and Fedora (Hyperworks)

    Anyone in Arch land running Altair Hyperworks?  I know that it is supported only on Red Hat Enterprise or SUSE Enterprise, but I believe that it will run on Fedora as well, so I thought I'd give it a whirl on Arch.  It seems to have an issue with missing (or not finding) fonts.  As far as I can tell, I have all the same fonts on my Arch install as I did in Fedora.  I'm guessing that this is due to differences in the way the font folders are laid out between Arch and Fedora.  Anyone got any suggestions before I go randomly poking around in /usr/share/fonts?

    Sorry for bringing back old post.
    But have you or anyone had any suggestions to run Altair Hyperworks on Arch?

  • Difference between SYNC/ASYNC, LGWR/ARCH, and AFFIRM/NOAFFIRM?

    Hi all ;
    I need some basic information about following things in data guard.(oracle 10g).
    difference between SYNC/ASYNC, LGWR/ARCH, and AFFIRM/NOAFFIRM?

    955912 wrote:
    Hi all ;
    I need some basic information about following things in data guard.(oracle 10g).
    difference between SYNC/ASYNC, LGWR/ARCH, and AFFIRM/NOAFFIRM?
    I believe information about the terms mentioned are well explained in the document link shared by Suntrupth so I won't explain all of them. But one thing that I believe is requiring a little clarity and that's the use of the term LGWR with the SYNCH and ASYNCH. The usual understanding is it's the LGWR that sends the message to the LNS which further would forward the change vectors to the standby site. But actually its always the LNS that reads the change vectors directly from the log buffer.That's the reason that 11g docs no longer mentions the keyword LGWR along with the SYNC and ASYNC.
    HTH
    Aman....

  • How about a good reads sectrion. Reading material on Arch and Linux

    K awsome wiki best done yet ,, no need for a how to section lol. Anyways might be interesting to have a good reads section on the forum relating to Arch and linux. The wiki is kewl but not all the good reads are on the arch site. This may help a lot of new users find reads to help them out.

    Section on the forum to post links to good reading material like help files or websites with articles pertaining to helping with Arch and linux. Say a good site on a wifi card or how to manually set up networking for a laptop in linux etc. Same idea as a how to's section but rather based on where to find the reading materials you need.

  • [Solved]Dual booting Arch and Fedora

    i was hoping to partition like this:
    /boot (same for both)
    /root (arch)
    /swap (same for both)
    /root (fedora)
    /home (same for both)
    this doing is according to: bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97121
    as both are using grub2, i don't think having same /boot would coz any trouble
    and about /home, having uid and gid 500 for both arch and fedora would not cause any trouble,eh?
    how do i change uid and gid from 100 to 500 on first boot in arch?
    thnz in advnc 
    Last edited by eric17 (2012-05-25 18:25:04)

    eric17 wrote:guys!..ran into a new one
    now that, i have gpt table(want to try it for the first time), so bootloader doesn't install in MBR, so how to install it on /dev/sda1(no seperate for boot)?
    there is no method to change the location from sda to sda1(as installer discourages it)
    if it is so important to have it in MBR, then how do I force it while 'Install bootloader'?
    first i created bios_grub(1mb) on /sda1 through fedora installation(as without it, after installing arch, fedora was showing error that there is no boot storage device 1 or somethin like that)
    then, through Gparted:
    /root /sda2   fedora
    /root /sda3   arch
    /swap           both
    simple ext4 data partion (later i would create folders in it and bind them to each distro's home
    then installed arch without bootloader in end....after that fedora and it installed grub 1.99 on /sda
    now, both are booting fine
    thnx to every one

  • [Solved] Boot process hangs for installed Arch and installation usb

    Hi. I've been using Arch Linux for around 6 months now and I'm in love with it. It is now my primary OS. However, I might have done something or performed some update, and I can no longer boot into Arch. The boot process hangs right before it should show the login screen (I'm using Gnome 3.6 with GDM). I see the following messages on the screen:
    Loading Linux core repo kernel ...
    Loading initial ramdisk ...
    /dev/sda3: recovering journal
    /dev/sda3: clean, 330610/1749664 files, 5585671/6996827 blocks
    And then it hangs right there. I have to hard-reboot after this.
    I then tried to boot using the Arch Linux Installation USB (archlinux-2012.12.01-dual.img), which also hangs at a particular point, before it should show me the prompt. I took a picture of the screen where it hangs: Screen Capture. This is an issue with just my laptop, because the USB boots just fine on another laptop I tried.
    I also have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my system, and I'm able to boot into both of them.
    I have 2 hard drives: /dev/sda is a 120GB SSD, and /dev/sdb is a 500GB hard disk. My partitions are as follows:
    sda1 - Windows 7 100MB System Reserved Partition (boot flag enabled)
    sda2 - Windows 7 OS
    sda3 - ArchLinux (boot flag enabled)
    sdb1 - Ubuntu 12.10 (boot flag enabled)
    sdb2 - Just data
    I ran bootinfoscript and below is the output:
    Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
    ============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
    => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
    the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
    in partition 99 for .
    => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of
    the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
    in partition 99 for .
    sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
    File system: ntfs
    Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
    Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:
    Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
    sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
    File system: ntfs
    Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
    Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System: Windows 7
    Boot files: /Windows/System32/winload.exe
    sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
    File system: ext4
    Boot sector type: -
    Boot sector info:
    Mounting failed: mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or sda3 busy
    sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
    File system: ext4
    Boot sector type: -
    Boot sector info:
    Operating System: Ubuntu 12.10
    Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab
    sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________
    File system: ntfs
    Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
    Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:
    Boot files:
    ============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
    Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
    Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 2,048 206,847 204,800 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
    /dev/sda2 206,848 178,466,084 178,259,237 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
    /dev/sda3 * 178,466,085 234,440,703 55,974,619 83 Linux
    Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
    Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
    /dev/sdb1 * 63 20,948,759 20,948,697 83 Linux
    /dev/sdb2 20,964,824 976,771,071 955,806,248 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
    "blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
    Device UUID TYPE LABEL
    /dev/mmcblk0p1 6665-3162 vfat
    /dev/sda1 CA6A20CC6A20B75B ntfs System Reserved
    /dev/sda2 1EE242D5E242B137 ntfs
    /dev/sda3 65db0c59-9f04-46f1-975d-8a4c28132137 ext4
    /dev/sdb1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ext4
    /dev/sdb2 3C2E3A4E2E3A0206 ntfs
    ================================ Mount points: =================================
    Device Mount_Point Type Options
    /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/dhaval/6665-3162 vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)
    /dev/sdb1 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
    =========================== sdb1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
    # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
    # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
    # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
    if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
    set have_grubenv=true
    load_env
    fi
    set default="0"
    if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
    menuentry_id_option="--id"
    else
    menuentry_id_option=""
    fi
    export menuentry_id_option
    if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
    set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
    save_env saved_entry
    set prev_saved_entry=
    save_env prev_saved_entry
    set boot_once=true
    fi
    function savedefault {
    if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
    saved_entry="${chosen}"
    save_env saved_entry
    fi
    function recordfail {
    set recordfail=1
    if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
    function load_video {
    if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
    else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
    fi
    if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
    font=unicode
    else
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
    fi
    if loadfont $font ; then
    set gfxmode=auto
    load_video
    insmod gfxterm
    set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
    set lang=en_US
    insmod gettext
    fi
    terminal_output gfxterm
    if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
    set timeout=-1
    else
    set timeout=10
    fi
    ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
    set menu_color_normal=white/black
    set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
    if background_color 13,37,73; then
    clear
    fi
    ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
    function gfxmode {
    set gfxpayload="${1}"
    if [ "${1}" = "keep" ]; then
    set vt_handoff=vt.handoff=7
    else
    set vt_handoff=
    fi
    if [ "${recordfail}" != 1 ]; then
    if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
    if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
    if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
    set linux_gfx_mode=keep
    else
    set linux_gfx_mode=text
    fi
    else
    set linux_gfx_mode=text
    fi
    else
    set linux_gfx_mode=keep
    fi
    else
    set linux_gfx_mode=text
    fi
    export linux_gfx_mode
    if [ "${linux_gfx_mode}" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
    menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    recordfail
    gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
    submenu 'Advanced options for Ubuntu' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-21-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-21-generic-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    recordfail
    gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-21-generic ...'
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
    echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
    menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.5.0-21-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.5.0-21-generic-recovery-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    recordfail
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    echo 'Loading Linux 3.5.0-21-generic ...'
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro recovery nomodeset
    echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic
    menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-29-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.2.0-29-generic-advanced-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    recordfail
    gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    echo 'Loading Linux 3.2.0-29-generic ...'
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor $vt_handoff
    echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
    menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-29-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.2.0-29-generic-recovery-bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed' {
    recordfail
    insmod gzio
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    echo 'Loading Linux 3.2.0-29-generic ...'
    linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic root=UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed ro recovery nomodeset
    echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
    initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic
    ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
    ### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
    menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
    menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ext2
    set root='hd1,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd1,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,msdos1 bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed
    fi
    linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
    ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
    menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-CA6A20CC6A20B75B' {
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ntfs
    set root='hd0,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 CA6A20CC6A20B75B
    else
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root CA6A20CC6A20B75B
    fi
    chainloader +1
    ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
    ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
    # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
    # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
    # the 'exec tail' line above.
    ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
    if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
    source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
    elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
    source $prefix/custom.cfg;
    fi
    ### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
    =============================== sdb1/etc/fstab: ================================
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
    # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
    # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
    # / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
    UUID=bb9818db-ce7c-43a4-8ad5-8d3702001aed / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
    =================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
    GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
    4.564525127 = 4.901121536 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
    5.130507946 = 5.508840960 boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-generic 2
    5.851592541 = 6.283099648 boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-21-generic 2
    6.317649364 = 6.783524352 boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic 1
    4.965751171 = 5.331934720 boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-21-generic 2
    5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img 2
    5.851592541 = 6.283099648 initrd.img.old 2
    4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz 2
    4.965751171 = 5.331934720 vmlinuz.old 2
    I tried adding nomodeset and acpi=off to the boot parameters, but the boot process still hangs. Please let me know if I should provide any other information.
    Last edited by dhavalparmar (2012-12-30 11:45:25)

    Ok.. So my Arch Linux randomly decided to work. I'm sure I didn't do anything between my last "not working" state and my current "working" state. Below are a few things I tried:
    I thought of trying an earlier build of ArchLinux, and downloaded archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso and made a bootable USB out of it. It still hung.
    I was getting error messages during Arch boot that the last access time for the disks was at a future date. I found out that Ubuntu was using localtime instead of UTC and screwing up my hardware clock. I fixed it, and thought maybe the time issues were causing the boot problem. But fixing time didn't solve my problem.
    I chrooted into Arch from my Ubuntu install, ran 'sudo pacman -Syyu' and updated my Arch install.
    I thought maybe GDM isn't starting up. I re-enabled the service using 'systemctl enable gdm.service'.
    I removed OpenNTPd and installed NTPd. Enabled the daemon using 'systemctl enable ntpd'
    None of the above solved the problem, and rebooting to Arch still hung the system. So I stopped fiddling with it yesterday. Today, as usual, I just tried logging into Arch.. And it just worked out of the blue. The solution to me is as mysterious as the problem.
    I told this to my friend who introduced me to Arch, and this is what he said:
    Damn it computers, you were supposed to be deterministic!

  • Arch And Windows 7 Dual Boot On Separate HDD

    Hi everyone.
    Firstly, a big thank you to everyone for helping me out in my first thread regarding choice of partitions and filesystems.
    I went on to install Arch today on my second HDD (160GB). My first HDD has Windows 7 installed on it. (The BIOS shows that the HDD with Win 7 installed is HDD1.)
    Arch showed the HDDs as sda and sdb. I was installing on sdb and created my partitions accordingly.
    sdb1 --> root (15GB)
    sdb2 --> swap (1GB)
    sdb3 --> var (10GB)
    sdb4 --> home (remaining space)
    I had to flag sdb1 as Bootable.
    Then I was asked about mountpoints and something about selecting by dev or uuid. I didn't quite understand but selected dev. Then formatted with ext4. Did not add any parameters.
    Before proceeding they gave a warning about no /boot partition but I continued anyway.
    It was an FTP install and went pretty smoothly. I configured everything exactly as I had read in the guides online and Wiki. GRUB said it configured successfully (I did not make any chnges to it). I had put GRUB on sdb and not on any partition.
    As I rebooted, my system did not show the GRUB but went straight on to Windows 7. I went into BIOS and changed my first drive to the 160GB Seagate where I had installed Arch and rebooted. This time GRUB came up without any option to boot Windows 7. When I selected Arch it gave an error and did not boot.
    So I'm back on Windows 7 and need help. I'm a noob and did not much understand the solution that I saw on another thread.  Since I intend to have the 2 OSs on separate drives and dual boot, what should I do?
    Will be very grateful for any help.
    Last edited by Ritwik7 (2010-06-06 12:01:31)

    Here you go:
    # Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
    # /boot/grub/menu.lst
    # DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
    # Linux Grub
    # /dev/fd0 (fd0)
    # /dev/sda (hd0)
    # /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
    # /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
    # FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
    # +-------------------------------------------------+
    # | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
    # ----+--------------------------------------------
    # 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
    # 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
    # 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
    # 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
    # +-------------------------------------------------+
    # for more details and different resolutions see
    # http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
    # general configuration:
    timeout 5
    default 0
    color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
    # boot sections follow
    # each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
    # TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
    # (0) Windows
    title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd1,0)
    makeactive
    chainloader +1
    # (1) Arch Linux
    title Arch Linux
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/vghparch-lvroot ro quiet
    initrd /kernel26.img
    # (2) Arch Linux
    title Arch Linux Fallback
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/vghparch-lvroot ro
    initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
    I installed grub on the second hdd and configured the bios so this drive comes first in the boot sequence and as pyther pointed out above the drive where grub is loaded from becomes hd0.
    Last edited by Ashren (2010-06-07 18:51:29)

  • Arch and MacBook Pro 8,3 2011

    Hello all! I have a MacBook Pro 8,3 late 2011 model. It has an Intel HD Graphics 3000 (i915 driver) and a AMD Radeon HD 6750M (radeon driver). I have been successful in setting up a partition for Arch and booting via EFI, but I am hitting a wall with the graphics portion of the configuration. If I edit the boot entry (pressing e when Grub comes up) and add the nomodeset kernel parameter the screen stays responsive and I am able to log into the system. Without adding that parameter, the screen stops updating. I have read up on the mux that controls the two graphics chips and it sounds like the the Radeon takes over, but is not pointing to the screen.
    I am not too concerned about the Radeon working at all. I primarily want to use the Intel chip and would only want to use the Radeon if could get something like vgaswitcheroo to work. I followed the documentation at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … 8,3_(2011) and added this to my 10_linux Grub entry
    outb 0x728 1
    outb 0x710 2
    outb 0x740 2
    outb 0x750 0
    but I’m still not able to get the system to boot without manually adding the nomodeset kernel parameter each time.
    Any suggestions?

    Anyone here with some insight?
    Just to give a little more information on the graphics problem. I can boot fine with KMS enabled for i915 and I see all the tty boot information fine and can use the tty consoles fine, but when I startx with the intel driver it looks like it is going to start fine for a second and then tty7 is just blank/black. I can go back to other tty's and when I look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log there are no errors that I can see. From the log it appears that the driver loaded fine but tty7 is just blank/black.

  • Arch and upcoming Gnome

    Hi. Well, for those who do not know, there's already a new Gnome development branch on the run. This branch includes, among others, the presence of administration tools. However, these tools do not support Arch, and I was thinking a lot of people would like Arch to be supported.
    However, I do not consider myself familiar enough with the system in order to provide the necessary information, which in fact I do not even know *how* to provide it.
    So I was wondering, is anyone working on Arch integration by any chance? And if not, is anyone up to it?

    yeah that would be great.
    there are already some third-party tools for GNOME.
    they are gonna merge or you're refering to new ones?
    give the GNOME and AL lovers a link

Maybe you are looking for