Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

I have been trying to install Arch on my new machine but am having issues getting it to work. I have in the past successfully installed the OS on my laptop, but for some reason it just simply will not work with my desktop.
Relevant Hardware:
MSI Z87 Gaming Motherboard (UEFI)
Intel i5 4690k
I do know, however, that the bios on my laptop is not of the UEFI type which could be the underlying issue here. To make the live-usb I do exactly as the guide states and use USB-Writer. I have also tried Universal-USB-installer and Rufus in an effort to get a working live-usb but all have the same issue in that they appear to freeze at the same spot.
An interesting note: I am able to successfully boot from my live-usb on my laptop (the very same that fails on my desktop). Therefore, I must be missing something specific to a piece of hardware my machine has or the fact that it uses UEFI. I was able to successfully create a gparted bootable usb to partition my drive, but the Arch image does not work so easily for some reason.
Any ideas?
Last edited by sherrellbc (2014-11-27 03:51:34)

On the beginner page here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/be … t_problems
It gives a few troubleshooting ideas, specifically if your boot freezes.I just wanted to add here that I added "acpi=off" at the end of the string as the guide states and it boots now. I had tried this earlier but did some tweaking in my bios settings regarding boot settings so I am not sure if this alone did this trick.
Last edited by sherrellbc (2014-11-27 04:29:10)

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     45 MB     rapportd
     37 MB     MacKeeper Helper
Virtual Memory Information:
     2.00 GB     Free RAM
     864 MB     Active RAM
     182 MB     Inactive RAM
     995 MB     Wired RAM
     164 MB     Page-ins
     0 B     Page-outs
I appreciate your assistance in this problem
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John (omegajon)

Trouble Booting to Ubuntu Live USB on T440

Hey,
I am having trouble booting to a Ubuntu Live USB on my T440. I turn on the laptop, press enter to interrupt the normal boot, and press F12 to select another boot option. But after selecting the appropritate USB, the screen goes black for a couple of seconds and then returns to the boot selection. It will not boot from the Ubuntu USB, only to the preinstalled Windows 8.
Other guides have recommended disabling Secure Boot (I have done this, it has not worked); others suggest enabling Secure Boot but changing to Legacy Boot (this didn't work for me either).
Once I can successfully boot to the USB, I will be installing Ubuntu, replacing Windows all together. I don't need help with that; just getting the computer to boot from the USB would be great.
Thanks.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Fixed. My boot USB was made with Ubuntu's Startup Disk Creator (on my other Ubuntu system). On a hunch, I made another boot USB using Linux Pen Drive on the Windows 8 machine. That one worked. I presume it was related to the format of the USB (the working one being FAT32).
So if anyone wants to easily install a Linux distibution on a T440, make your boot USB on a Windows machine.

[SOLVED] Seriously, Arch? Recovery shell, USB boot won't work

So I made the mistake of updating my system without painstakingly checking the news/updates and possible error logs. I rebooted my computer this morning and:
Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done.
Booting the kernel.
:: Running Hook [resume]
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/sda3'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#
This appears to be a pretty widespread problem today, as I've googled and searched the forums extensively and everyone is complaining about some udev to mkinitcpio movement or something.
I know what I need to do: either copy my files off my hard drive and reinstall, or chroot and downgrade my kernel, or chroot and reinstall udev, something like that.
Cool, so I need a liveCD. Unfortunately, my laptop lacks a CD drive (lenovo tablet). So I set out to make a USB bootable drive.
I tried it from Windows: my laptop didn't detect anything and kept kicking me back to the recovery shell. (Tried PartedMagic, Ubuntu, and Arch.)
I tried it from my school's Linux computers: Can't do *anything* without root. I tried sudo and for the first time in my life, the incident was reported and I got an email telling me not to try sudo again. Sweet.
I just tried it from my friend's Mac (the Arch x64 iso via Unetbootin): Now I get a blinking cursor when I boot from the USB.
What would you do? I'm at my wit's end here, and after using Archlinux for two years, this is giving me a MAJORLY bad taste in my mouth for the distro.
Last edited by tacostick (2012-02-15 23:33:13)

karol,
I can only change parameters from the grub menu, as far as I can tell, and I tried (hd0,{0,1,2,3,4}) and none of them worked. Only (hd0,0) gets me even as far as the recovery shell.
fsckd,
I'm using Unetbootin, which offers Core, Core_x64, Netinstall, and Netinstall_x64. Because I intend to chroot an x64 system, I tried core_x64.
willbprog127,
Yeah, you're right - sorry for being snarky. Thanks, please do let me know if you find that parameter.
I booted from the usb stick on one of my school's RHEL computers, and it says "no operating system detected". I'm...so...sad...why didn't unetbootin work...going to try to burn ubuntu again.

Arch Linux Live USB - FAT-fs error [SOLVED]

Hello,
Every time I try to boot from one of my USBs, it comes up with the error:
FAT-fs (sdb-2): IO charset iso8859-1 not found
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
This error occurs when using both my custom archiso image AND the latest official live image. I have tried reformatting the partition using another computer, to no avail. I have set up another live USB using the exact same commands as this one, and it boots up fine. The partitions on this one are set up like:
/dev/sdX1 - LUKS data partition
/dev/sdX2 - FAT-32 partition (what I'm trying to boot from)
I've been able to boot from this USB before. The only thing I can think of that could do this would be when my laptop died while the LUKS partition was mounted. Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by DoctorSelar (2014-05-11 00:15:04)

This is a known bug:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40217

Arch boot using live-usb freezes on "Triggering uevents.."

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