[Solved] Bootup Freezes

Question

Hi all, been using Gentoo for a very long time and now I'm starting to transition to Arch. Loving it quite a lot.
I have a problem on a new install I'm doing on my ancient Macbook Pro.
I got everything setup with rEFInd and grub seems to be working ok.
I get to the bootup chooser in grub and choose the Arch Linux option (I went in and took off the quiet option for this screenshot)
It seems to be working ok until it gets to 'Reached target Local File Sytems (Pre)' and then it just hangs.
I have my hdd setup as
/dev/sda1 is the /boot/efi partition
/dev/sda2 is the /boot/ partition
/dev/sda3 is the swap partition.
/dev/sda4 is the / partition.
I have tried reinstalling systemd, mkinitcpio, and the kernel. I found something online that said to add 'ahci sd_mod' to the modules in mkinitcpio.conf but it didn't seem to help.
Any ideas?
https://i.imgur.com/lbWwvPL.jpg
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Last edited by orthanc (2013-06-19 02:41:27)

Answer 1

Yes it is an older Macbook Pro (april 2008). Yes I have read that I can use rEFInd to go directly to the kernel, but it took me ~12 hours just to get a working bootloader setup this far. It may not be pretty but it works so I'm not super worried about that.
So I commented out a couple of lines in fstab and that seems to have helped
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda4
UUID=e13b58db-f9bb-422c-b550-2bc6090414db / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/sda2
# UUID=06bc77ab-578f-4e74-bd7c-1c70d8f019fc /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda1
# UUID=0D05-830A /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# /dev/sda3
UUID=d25948a3-a1b2-4dc1-abd2-813f61290c98 none swap defaults 0 0
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 100M 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 2G 0 part
└─sda4 8:4 0 230.6G 0 part /
sr0 11:0 1 523M 0 rom
loop0 7:0 0 226.9M 1 loop
loop1 7:1 0 1.5G 1 loop
└─arch_root-image 254:0 0 1.5G 0 dm /etc/resolv.conf
loop2 7:2 0 1.5G 0 loop
└─arch_root-image 254:0 0 1.5G 0 dm /etc/resolv.conf
Now it seems to hang at "Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persistent Storage"
One time it got past there to where it complains I don't have the firmware for my b43 wireless card and froze there, but now it seems to stop at this point every time.
https://i.imgur.com/2QYSOUh.jpg
Last edited by orthanc (2013-06-18 04:43:19)