Archlinux installed on SD card not booting w/o external card reader

Hello, this is my first time here, so hopefully I don't sound too much like an idiot.
I've been trying to install Archlinux to an 8GB SDHC cards (Tried on two different ones, Kingston and Polaroid). I'm doing this via an Archlinux live CD on my Desktop (HP m9040n with Windows 7) through it's built-in SD Card reader. The install goes nicely, and I can boot from the SD card alright on my desktop. However, when I put the card into my ASUS eeePC 900's SD card slot, it won't boot, showing:
Buffer I/O error, dev sda, sector 16015344
Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/[UUID]' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor nubmer of root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/[UUID]'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
sda is the SD card.
Now for the fun part, when I put the SD card into a USB all-in-one card reader, and hook that up to the eeePC, it boots fine. I followed the USB guide on the wiki site, and it boots alright on anything but the eeePC built-in card reader. Please help Let me know what other information you need. Thanks in advanced.
-Adam

ok... so im in the exact same boat.. trying to get Archlinux on an SD card with xbmc. had some trouble in the installer but figured it out after looking at this board and the various wikis. however i am having the exact same issue. i now have usb hook enabled and detecting and mounting the SD card. however it just hangs shortly after this and after about 5 minutes will just start to work and boot normally.
this is unacceptable for a media system, and not sure what the cause is... casual.formality, did you find a solution?
thanks.
just wanted to add that im using the latest netboot installer and using UUID, system is an acer aspire revo.
Last edited by ayok (2010-07-11 11:42:09)

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