Ppc Arch (SOLVED)

When I try to download PPC-CD's from the ARCH-PPC site (Get Arch) I get this message:
"500 - Internal Server Error
Something has gone horribly wrong. Back away slowly."
What is going on?
Last edited by mianka (2008-03-26 09:42:08)

fixed, sorry for the inconvenience

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Problems after installing Arch [SOLVED]

Hello,
I attempted to follow the installation instructions to install Arch Linux. I followed those since they are faster than the Beginners Guide and didn’t meet some of my needs.
For example, I was also wanting to install an LVM partition (and I'll backup and set up dm-crypt+LUKS later after I get this issue solved), which the Beginner Guide didn't mention and there were a few other minor tweaks I wanted.
In my partition layout I have a 400MB boot (extra room for other kernels). followed by an LVM volume, which has one volume group with 4 logical partitions, these are: /, /home, /tmp, and /var.
The problem:
GRUB is not working, or at least it's not installed and configured correctly. When I boot up my computer, it says exactly, "GRUB", in the top-left corner of my screen and nothing happens. I have a poor understanding of the init/bootloader process in computers, which I am trying to learn slowly but steadily. I was re-reading the instructions for GPT specific partitions, which is what I use, and it says here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual … stallation
That I'm supposed to have a "BIOS partition". This is interesting because I have no idea what this is for. Something came to mind when I was using cgdisk or gdisk, it would automatically allocate the first 2000-ish sectors (instead of 34 like the documentation was hinting), so this probably means something.... I don't know.
And then I read that the BIOS installation for GPT is supposed to be done before you install Arch Linux. Whoops! So can I fix this without having to reinstall Arch? I can probably mount all of my directories and chroot inside again after creating the BIOS partition so GRUB can be configured and reinstalled correctly. Maybe I can fix this. I don't know.
So I am trying to troubleshoot this problem, but is there anything I am understanding wrongly here? Is there some other reason why GRUB won't boot up? I tried Super GRUB 2 disk and that didn't work, there was just a blank screen when booting from grub.cfg. Any help or suggestions?
I am using x86_64 Arch Linux with the installed 3.6.4-1-ARCH Linux kernel.
Last edited by mrrhq (2012-11-08 22:31:49)

mrrhq wrote:In my partition layout I have a 400MB boot (extra room for other kernels). followed by an LVM volume, which has one volume group with 4 logical partitions, these are: /, /home, /tmp, and /var.
Be aware that logical partitions are a construct of the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning system; however, the title of your thread, and some of the specifics, suggest that you're using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) system, which doesn't use logical partitions. If you're certain you used gdisk or cgdisk, and not fdisk or cfdisk, then you're using GPT and I'd simply accept your use of the word "logical" as an error. If there's any doubt in your mind about this, though, you should investigate further, since some of the issues and solutions depend greatly on which partitioning system you used.
That I'm supposed to have a "BIOS partition". This is interesting because I have no idea what this is for.
The BIOS Boot Partition holds a portion of the GRUB code. It's used on GPT disks but not on MBR disks -- on MBR, the equivalent code goes in an officially-unallocated area immediately after the MBR. The BIOS Boot Partition can sometimes be just a few kibibytes in size, but it's usually either 1MiB or 2MiB. (I've seen reports that some configurations now require over 1MiB, but I haven't investigated this claim.)
Something came to mind when I was using cgdisk or gdisk, it would automatically allocate the first 2000-ish sectors (instead of 34 like the documentation was hinting), so this probably means something.... I don't know.
No, these are unrelated issues. Most partitioning tools today, including gdisk and its siblings, align all partitions on 2048-sector (1MiB) boundaries so as to avoid performance penalties that can be incurred on Advanced Format disks, SSDs, and some types of RAID arrays. See this article I wrote on the topic some time ago.
That said, if you have nowhere else to put it, you could try creating a BIOS Boot Partition in that space. You'd need to change the alignment policy in gdisk or cgdisk to align on 1-sector boundaries to do so, although an 8-sector alignment would be safer for future changes if you've got an Advanced Format disk. The BIOS Boot Partition isn't really greatly affected by the alignment issues, so I wouldn't worry about leaving it unaligned. OTOH, if GRUB wants more then 1MiB on your system, this space would be too small, so it might be better to resize a partition to make room for the BIOS Boot Partition.
WonderWoofy wrote:From what I understand (I have not tried this though) grub2 is actually lvm aware. So you can put all partitions within the lvm, including boot. If this is the case, I see no reason why you would not also be able to put the 2MB bios boot partition in there as well.
GRUB 2 is LVM-aware, and it is possible to put your Linux /boot directory inside the LVM. If you want to do this, though, there's really no point to split /boot off into a separate logical volume (the LVM equivalent of a partition); you might as well just make it a normal directory off of the root (/) filesystem. I'm pretty sure it is not possible to put the BIOS Boot Partition inside the LVM. That's because the code to parse the LVM data structures is contained within the BIOS Boot Partition, thus creating a chicken-and-egg situation if you were to attempt it. Furthermore, the code to write to the BIOS Boot Partition looks for the partition type code in the disk's partition table, and there's no equivalent to that in the LVM data structures. (All this said, in principle you might be able to get something like this to work, but the result would be something similar, but not identical, to a BIOS Boot Partition.)
Although GRUB 2 can read a kernel from within an LVM, I still prefer to keep a separate /boot partition. The reason is that you might not always use GRUB 2. If you wanted or needed to switch to another boot loader in the future, it might not be LVM-aware, and might need /boot to be on a true partition, not in an LVM. (This is true of every EFI boot loader except for GRUB 2, for instance.) In fact, I routinely create two or three smallish partitions on my computers so that I can create multiple /boot partitions for multi-boot configurations or to help transition to a new installation should the need arise. This can help simplify things when the time comes to start fresh.

Mounting dual boot linux partition from Arch [SOLVED]

Hey guys,
I have just installed Arch for the first time and im wondering if someone can explain how i can mount my other partition (which is currently used for Ubuntu)
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Thanks in advance
Last edited by rogg (2009-08-14 08:05:39)

Thanks everyone for the help, i managed to get it working by editing the fstab
ill post up how i did it, in case anyone else wants to know:
identify the partition:
(can use gparted or fdisk -l)
identify uuid:
sudo blkid
edit fstab and add:
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hope this helps
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[PPC] Arch tries to boot from a root partition on NFS

I just finished installing Arch on my Powerbook G4 when during boot it hangs trying to boot off of a root partition via NFS. I set my root partition as /dev/sda4 during the install process and didn't configure anything for a remote root partition. The error that I get is:
Root-NFS: no NFS server address
VFS: Unabled to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
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Any ideas?

BIOS won't boot freshly installed Arch [solved]

Hello
Last night I did a complete wiping of my hard drive on my old HP620 laptop in order to start my ideal Arch setup from the scratch.
I decided to give GPT a try, since I've been sick of the brain damaged MBR all those years. I did the install as usual, using cgdisk
to partition the drive within the freshly created GUID partition table. I made up 5 partitions, with the leading 1MiB BIOS boot partition,
which I created inside the first 40-2047 sector boundaries and set it to type ef02.
Everything has been alligned properly and passed without any errors. I partitioned the drive as follows:
quetzalcoatl% sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 625142448 sectors, 298.1 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 1DC6DA85-2730-4101-ADA1-69EA884CC1B7
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
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Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
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1 40 2047 1004.0 KiB EF02
2 2048 52430847 25.0 GiB 8300
3 52430848 85985279 16.0 GiB 8300
4 85985280 94373887 4.0 GiB 8200
5 94373888 262146047 80.0 GiB 8302
sda1 is BIOT boot partition, sda2 is /, sda3 is reiserfs /var, sda4 for swap and sda5 is /home.
I formated every partition prior to mounting and installing the base system, except for sda1 which
I left intact (no formatting, just the cgdisk part of creating and chosing type).
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grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
after which I unmounted and rebooted, but the BIOS refused to boot into the system. It came up with the "Non
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I tried adding the boot flag to the BIOS boot partition using "parted /dev/sda set1 bios_grub on", and even faking
and adding bootable flag to BIOS boot partition using the MBR's fdisk since gdisk hasn't got the option to.
Nothing helped.
Pacman says GRUB version is grub 1:2.02.beta2-4. Should I try going with syslinux or my BIOS (which I hadn't been updating at all)
is perhaps too old or buggy to cope with the GPT? I don't want to convert to MBR, if technically would be possible to boot using GPT.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance,
Luth
Last edited by luther7hrol (2014-11-05 15:55:28)

Hi Luther,
As the thread hasn't been marked as solved I hope this will help:
1. The standard partition table type used by BIOS systems is MBR/MSDOS. Any PC released prior to Windows 8 should be a BIOS system. GPT is a newer partition table type used as standard with UEFI systems (i.e. post Windows 8). To make life simple, it is recommended to stick to the standard partition type appropriate for your system.
2. The performance gain you would get using Reiserfs - I suspect - would be negligable. Ext2/3/4 would be a better choice, particularly as they are easy to use and are very popular (i.e. better chance of getting advice and support if you need it).

Can't log in with newly created user on new install of Arch [solved]

Hi all,
Yesterday I installed Arch anew (because I had a hardware failure that took out my hard drive), but now I'm encountering an issue with logging in.
After following the installation guide, and creating a new user, I find that I'm unable to log in as said user.
It complains about wrong password, but it's the exact same password that I entered mere moments before that, when creating the new user.
I can "log in" as said user by first logging in as root (which does work) and doing "su - <username>" (though then it doesn't ask for a password).
Can someone point me in the right direction to fix this problem?
Last edited by madjo (2013-07-03 20:19:43)

I think cfr meant to say you shouldn't "fix" bash path - as some users did. Unfortunately there's a bit confusion wrt which paths should be used - see this ML thread.
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Xorg 1.9 fails to initialize on a usb-installation of Arch [SOLVED]

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I added in a "Synaptics" section, since this is on a laptop right now.
I'm using the "Vesa" device driver for maximum portability.
Upon starting X, using the default TWM as a test (and tried openbox as well), the screen goes black, comes back up, and then has multicolored, low-res artifacts all over the screen, not remotely resembling a desktop.
Upon switching to a different TTY, there is no prompt. All TTY's are left with a blinking underscore. The only way to get out of it is to hard reboot the machine.
I've already looked at the log, but saw nothing out of the ordinary at all. The last thing it said was that Synaptics was detected and loaded.
The Xorg.conf is also basically default. The only thing I changed was adding synaptics, then fiddling with the Vesa options trying to get it to work (neither option change worked).
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Last edited by hwkiller (2010-11-06 22:02:04)

Well, that still failed.
Here is a picture of the artifacts (excuse the use of an actual camera, I'm unaware of any other way while in this situation)
http://imgur.com/yqkLv.jpg
I haven't tried another driver. The reason I'm using Vesa is to ensure portability if I want to use Arch on another computer. On this same computer I'm running Arch on an nvidia card with the proprietary driver, and it works fine.
Additionally, apparently if I set the vga= mode in GRUB, I can get back to terminal once X fails.
If I don't, x fails, and I cannot see the terminal. However, I can type in the terminal as though it works. I just have to relogin on a different tty and issue a reboot blindly.
My GRUB settings are cleared, xorg monitor settings are default all except for a specified driver and "NoMTRR". Not sure what else to do.
Another hint is that when X starts, sometimes it flashes what looks to be my laptop's POST and linux's startup text; perhaps something to do with the framebuffer?
Last edited by hwkiller (2010-11-06 17:45:03)

Dual Booting Windows and Arch (SOLVED!)

Hello all, I'm having trouble getting a windows partition activated again. (Windows was on here for many years, then I installed arch on a separate partition.)
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Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
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/dev/sda2 7834 12039 33784695 83 Linux
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This is the pertinent section of /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title Arch Linux
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initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
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kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/f3be3baa-3b62-460c-8801-64b0b1cca$
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
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I have a . . . modified . . . copy of XP Professional, which comes with a recovery console to reinstall the MBR if it's necessary.
From what I've researched, I somehow need to reinstall grub to the second partition, make the second partition primary bootable, then rewrite the MBR on the first partition, and correct any command errors in menu.lst, but I haven't really figure out a way to do it.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Last edited by mongoose088 (2008-12-20 21:48:18)

I read up on some documentation of installing GRUB to the MBR.
So far, I went into ArchLive (from the cd) and did the following
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
The installation reports success with no errors, but the problem persists. Arch linux will boot fine, but when I select XP it flashes my configuration, like so:
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
then kicks me back to the OS select GRUB screen. Did I install it to the wrong place?
EDIT:
I decided to issue this command:
grub> setup(hd0,1)
It reported some errors, then arch couldn't mount the ntfs partition because of possible MFT cluster errors.
Using testdisk, I repaired the boot sector and MFT clusters, then using ArchLive reinstalled grub with grub>(hd0)
Arch and Arch Fallback will boot correctly, but now the windows side shows an error:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Loading stage2Read Error (or something to this extent)
I wonder if this error brings me closer or farther to a solution?
Thanks for the replies so far!
Last edited by mongoose088 (2008-12-20 05:41:43)

Using ssh as an http proxy on Arch [SOLVED]

I read this article and would like to use a friend's debian box as a www proxy. I ssh'ed into it using the following command from my Arch box:
$ ssh user@ip -D 8000
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Last edited by graysky (2009-07-30 21:06:04)

Thanks for the quick reply. I got it working:
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Dual boot with WinXp and Arch-Solved

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dd if=/dev/hda7 of=arch.lnx bs=512 count=1
to get the first 512 bytes of the partition in which I installed arch and then added a line directing towards arch.lnx (moved to windows partition) in boot.ini. But now after reinstalling arch, when i do the same to get first 512 bytes of the partition, it generates a blank file and hence using that I'm not able to boot into arch. Grub is installed in this partition only. Any hints about this issue.
EDIT: I dont know what was the problem exactly, but after I reinstalled grub by "grub-install /dev/hda7" and then did the above command, it worked fine.

moderator comment: This is a question on Kubuntu installation but it seems to me OP specifically wants to know how to set up his partitions without harming Arch. As long as the discussion remains about Arch Linux this thread can stay. I'm going to have to move this from Installation to Newbie Corner.
Annorax wrote:I assure you that I am doing my own research. I am new to Linux and new to dual booting and was just looking for some pointers and a place to start reading.
Please see this. I advise you to read the links 2ManyDogs gave. You also need to give us more information about your partitions, such as what is mounted where. I suspect you only have primary partitions and will need to convert one into an extended partition.

Can't install Arch (SOLVED)

Hello everyone. I'm already an Arch user and I'm very happy with it. The problem is that now I'm trying to install another Arch on another HD (to try out KDE4 without breaking my previous Arch install).
The problem is that everytime I want to install Arch everything goes fine but then when I want to boot with that HD I get GRUB's errors. Sometime is just that GRUB can't find the kernel image and sometime not even GRUB is able to start up (it frezes saying nonsenses). I'm starting to doubt about the HD. Could it have the MBR broken (I mean phisically)?
On the other hand, when I log in the working Arch install I can see all the partitions and the files in them (GRUB files, / files, etc.). Also I ran "fsck -f" and it says everything is alright....
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Last edited by Gonzakpo (2008-09-28 18:06:01)

Sorry, I forgot to mention something important. My motherboard comes with a boot menu incorporated. Something like an integrated "GRUB". It lets me choose from which HD I want to boot so I really don't need to put all my OSes in the same GRUB. I just install them as if they were on the only HD in the PC. That way each HD is completely transparent to each other.
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# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
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# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/hda (hd0)
# /dev/hdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/hda3 (hd0,2)
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# +-------------------------------------------------+
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# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 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
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# general configuration:
timeout 5
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color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
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# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
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kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a69baf94-a0c3-4306-b1e3-efe8fbec338b ro
initrd /kernel26.img
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Last edited by rnarch (2012-03-21 17:34:42)

rnarch wrote:I am writing this from my previous distro + firefox.
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HP dv4-1125nr
2.6.30-Arch
Archlinux 2009.08
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Last edited by Inzombie (2009-09-02 22:20:59)

1.go to the HP official site to download the driver for XP
2.then use winzip to open the exe file and search the inf and sys files for your wireless card
3.copy the inf and sys files to a usb disk
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7.reboot
8.done~
Last edited by Rothsdad (2009-09-02 13:32:33)

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2.- When I scroll in a webpage and got to the top and continue scrolling the mouse wheel, it goes back to the latest page, and when scrolling down, it goes forward, how can I disable this?
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4-. What is the File Alteration Monitor?, when the system boots, it says FAILED when loading that, and gives a line saying "fam is not active", what is that and how do I fi it?
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