[Solved]Portable Arch install

I have an Arch 64bit install on my laptop. The laptop had some hardware problem so I need to send in the laptop for repair.
I want to take the hard drive, plug it in another laptop and boot into my existing install.
1. Can this be done?
2. What do I need to do to get this done?
3. What are the limitations of this, ie when can't I do this?
Thanks for your answers.
Last edited by lamdacore (2011-09-02 14:06:44)

lamdacore wrote:Also why always the fallback?
Because the normal kernel contains drivers only for your previous machine in the initramfs image. Now that you're on your new machine, you can create a new image with mkinitcpio. Or continue running the fallback kernel.

Similar Messages

[SOLVED] New arch install from Virtualbox cannot boot on real hardware

Hi,
I'm trying my luck with installing Arch on physical disk through Virtualbox. I followed Wiki and managed to install system on the disk. However, I am unable to boot it outside VM.
I have two physical disks - /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I have installed Arch on /dev/sda1. It is there, I can see the files from my current OS and it does work in VM. /dev/sda1 is bootable.
However, when I boot my PC from /dev/sda rootfs fails to load kernel image - it says it can't be found. I tried specifing init path in Syslinux.cfg using /dev/sdxX and UUID and even PARTUUID but none worked. When in rootfs, I lsed /dev/disk/by-uuid and found that rootfs sees only one of my two disks, /dev/sdb. I find it really strange.
I followed below advise found on forums:
- Verify that mkinitcpio.conf lists "block" hook
- Create a new kernel image with mkinitcpio -p linux
- Refer to your partition by UUID
- If above doesn't work, try PARTUUID
None of these worked. I believe the reason for this is that the issue is not with how I reference the disk nor how the mkinitcpio works but with the disk not being available for rootfs at all. Alas, I have no experience with disks other than simple partitioning, so I'm not sure where to start.
Fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 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: 0x99ea4d63
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 314779647 314777600 150,1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 314779648 1153640447 838860800 400G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1153640448 1157834751 4194304 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x75a6998e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 616447 614400 300M 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 616448 210331647 209715200 100G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 210331648 241788927 31457280 15G 83 Linux
Any ideas? Suggestions and help will be appreciated!
Last edited by karm (2014-12-08 03:56:35)

Sleep is for the weak.
So I've read that article and found what the issue was.
Turns out I automatically followed previous advise without giving it some thought and run mkinitcpio from Virtualbox. Which does not make sense because the whole point of this is to prepare kernel image to run on other hardware than provided by VM. So what I did to fix this:
1. Installed arch-chroot on VM
2. Mounted /dev/sda1 on my host machine and chrooted into it using arch-chroot
3. Run mkinitpcio -p linux
4. Reinstalled boot loader just in case with syslinux-install_update -iam /dev/sda1
5. Adjusted /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to work with new configuration:
5.1 set root=UUID=..... to be certain it picks the right partition
5.2 add proper systemd init path APPEND=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
And it does work - I'm posting from my new shiny system. Thanks a lot ackt1c!

[SOLVED]New Arch install, cannot run ip command to set up wireless

Hello all.
I'm new to Arch, but not to linux. I'm moving over from Ubuntu. I manually paritioned my hard drive and got an Arch dual boot with windows 7 working. Right now I'm trying to get my wireless set up, but when i run "ip link set wlan0 up" I got the error "Bash: command not found"
Using some things I found reseearching the problem, i rran "whereis ip" and got /usr/share/man/man7/ip.7.gz, so I made a symbolic link, /usr/bin/ip to this file, but now I get the error "Permission denied" when I run ip. (I am logged in as root by the way)
Apologies for the newbie question, and thank you for the help.
Last edited by okaylol (2011-07-22 01:32:28)

The only thing I can think of is that you don't have ip installed somehow.
I'm not sure what package it's in, but search around with pacman -Ss for networking stuff in core.
You'll eventually want netcfg for easier wireless setup, if you don't already have it.
That symlink you made was the wrong thing to do. You found the man page, which is not executable.
So when you try to run ip, your actually trying to run the manpage, which is why you get permission denied.
Even root can't run things that aren't programs.
You can probably find everything you need in the wiki. Good Luck.

[SOLVED] After Arch install, non-root wont boot into Gnome

First off I searched for around an hour but couldn't find an answer to this so somewhat gave up.
Coming from Ubuntu and very dissatisfied with performance I am very excited for Arch.
I followed the newb guide to a T, everything went smooth as butter.
after the guide was finished I installed Gnome3
pacman -S gnome gnome-shell gnome-extra
Went perfect. I try and login to the user I created while going thru the guide and instantly boot into the basic X environment?
So I thought perhaps I should try adduser after I installed Gnome3 and now when logging into that new user, the screen goes black for 2sec then
greets me with this message (still in command):
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 12 22:46:05 2011
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
(EE) Logitech Logitech Illuminated Keyboard: failed to initialize for relative axes.
(EE) Logitech G500: failed to initialize for relative axes.
xinit: connection to X server lost
Any ideas as to what's going on?
Last edited by PumpkinJack (2011-08-13 20:59:07)

Durden wrote:Did you install GDM? How are you launching X? What groups is the user in?
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I installed GDM after gnome, everything works great for root.
im using startx to launch X
Just using the default group per newbie guide instructions which I believe is users

[SOLVED] First Arch Install - but with wireless problem

Hi all
I got my first Arch installation working this morning. It was only the third try at installing which I didn't think was too bad really. I made some dumb mistakes the first two times. Arch rocks once you take the plunge. I've initially set it up with KDE but am thinking of switching to OpenBox instead - I like the minimal sort of style.
I've got a bit of an issue with the wireless. My settings in /etc/network.d/talktalk are as follows:
CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='wep'
ESSID='TALKTALK-8AD68C'
KEY='s:######'
IP='dhcp'
# Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden
#HIDDEN=yes
It's a direct copy of the wep wireless example in /etc/network.d/examples.
The issue is that I issue from the command line: sudo netcfg talktalk
It responds initially with: [BUSY] but then responds: WPA Authentication/Association Failed [FAIL]
I know the wireless card works fine - I am dual booting with Ubuntu, and the ESSID and Key are correct. Any ideas anyone?
Thanks In Advance
Rich
Last edited by RichAustin (2011-07-27 18:53:56)

I can't see anything in the 2 posts mentioned. These are the settings I have so far:
I've just noticed in point (6) below that it says "Access Point: Not-Associated". Possibly significant?
1) Output from netcfg:
[richard@dhcppc2 ~]$ sudo netcfg talktalk
:: talktalk up [BUSY]
> WPA Authentication/Association Failed
[FAIL]
2) Content of my /etc/network.d network profile - talktalk (actual key is obscured):
CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple WEP encrypted wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='wep'
ESSID='TALKTALK-8AD68C'
KEY='s:#####'
IP='dhcp'
# Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden
#HIDDEN=yes
3) Netcfg version:
[richard@dhcppc2 ~]$ sudo netcfg -v
Password:
netcfg v2.5.5
4) Output from lsmod:
[richard@dhcppc2 ~]$ sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 249068 44
joydev 7535 0
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 20368 1
snd_hda_codec_realtek 225687 1
snd_hda_intel 19261 4
snd_hda_codec 66665 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
arc4 1094 2
ecb 1645 2
snd_hwdep 4919 1 snd_hda_codec
uvcvideo 55084 0
snd_pcm 60311 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 15542 2 snd_pcm
videodev 70734 1 uvcvideo
snd 43399 13 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
brcmsmac 561908 0
soundcore 5018 1 snd
iTCO_wdt 10333 0
sg 21022 0
r8169 34891 0
mac80211 189598 1 brcmsmac
hp_wmi 6602 0
i2c_i801 7039 0
iTCO_vendor_support 1553 1 iTCO_wdt
cfg80211 126930 2 brcmsmac,mac80211
snd_page_alloc 5909 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sparse_keymap 2636 1 hp_wmi
pcspkr 1415 0
serio_raw 3430 0
rfkill 12510 2 hp_wmi,cfg80211
media 8513 1 videodev
processor 21884 0
mii 3383 1 r8169
psmouse 55927 0
wmi 7367 1 hp_wmi
evdev 7310 9
ac 2545 0
thermal 6603 0
battery 8905 0
ext4 334562 3
mbcache 4321 1 ext4
jbd2 59098 1 ext4
crc16 1077 1 ext4
usbhid 31211 0
hid 63007 1 usbhid
sr_mod 12956 0
cdrom 31341 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 25483 5
ahci 18093 4
libahci 16581 1 ahci
libata 154285 2 ahci,libahci
ehci_hcd 34847 0
usbcore 119324 4 uvcvideo,usbhid,ehci_hcd
scsi_mod 110702 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
i915 557838 2
drm_kms_helper 24245 1 i915
drm 147653 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
intel_agp 8664 1 i915
i2c_algo_bit 4431 1 i915
button 3654 1 i915
intel_gtt 11417 3 i915,intel_agp
agpgart 22160 3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
i2c_core 16665 6 videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video 9852 1 i915
5) Output from iwconfig:
[richard@dhcppc2 ~]$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TALKTALK-8AD68C"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=19 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

[SOLVED] Can I install Arch on the same PC, without a CD/USB/Netboot

Hello
I'm kinda bored, and then I like to reinstall Arch over and over.. but I lack a CD/USB stick and/or another PC to do a PXE install, therefor..
Can I set up my current installation to boot into a new arch install when I reboot somehow?
Thanks.
Last edited by valvet (2010-11-08 14:50:16)

hokasch wrote:Sure.. two examples:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fa … nux_System (use swap for the iso and convert it back later)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ting_Linux
or extract kernel & initrd from archboot image, save it somewhere and create a grub entry - works fine for net installs
Ok I thought it was solved, but I was wrong.. here's what I did, hopefully you or someone else can help.
Downloaded the netinst image (160mb), copied:
/mnt/iso/boot/archiso.img > /boot/archiso.img
/mnt/iso/boot/vmlinuz26 > /boot/vmlinuz26-test
Edited /boot/grub/menu.lst according to /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux.cfg
# test
title Arch test install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26-test
initrd /archiso.img archisolabel=ARCH_201005 tmpfs_size=75% locale=en_US.UTF-8
Now, whenever I boot this.. it says "Waiting 30 seconds for device /disk-by/uid.. lots of dots here.
Ideas? I'd like to avoid making a new partition as suggested in the wiki, as it requires me to load a live cd of sorts anyway, so I can shrink one of my partitions.
Thanks :-)!
Last edited by valvet (2010-10-31 19:48:05)

[SOLVED]Shift my Arch install to a new (smaller) PC/HDD?

Hey all, I've looked around all sorts of forums for the answer to this, but none of them seem to cater exactly to my need, so I'll post my problem here!
Essentially I bought a new harddive. Well actually, I bought a whole new PC-worth of parts, but it's the harddrive causing problems.
I've had this Arch install for quite a while, and as such it's pretty well tweaked and messed about with, so I REALLY don't want to start again with a clean install, so I want to (For lack of a better terminology) Copy-paste my entire Arch install into the new harddrive.
I looked into Clonezilla, but there's a slight issue... My new drive is smaller than my old one. I know this was a dumb mistake on my part, but really I don't need anything bigger (Even with a load of movies, VM's and Wine games that can easily be deleted I'm only using 60-70GB of drive right now) And the only reason I really needed a new drive was because the new motherboard doesn't have an IDE slot, and my old drive is an IDE (I know there's adaptors for that, but they sound a bit dodgy at best)
My current partitions on my drive are also numbered a bit funny, which I think is where this went wrong when I attempted it, due to me distro-hopping a bit before landing on Arch.
So, is there an easy way to go about this, that I'm overlooking? Are there more config files that I should have editted (All I did upon clonezilla-ing the main partition was change the grub menu.lst file to say sda1 instead of sda3, and the same in fstab)
What I tried first time round, was to use Clonezilla, and only clone my /dev/sda3 partition (That's the one with Arch installed, sda1 is just an empty box that I occasionally store junk in) And this put a partition on the new drive, sda1, which was the reason for editting the menu.lst/fstab.
I then (Upon the above failing to boot) used GParted (Using a Mint LiveCD) To shrink my partitions down so they're approx. 65GB each (My current drive is 200GB, split equally in half, and my new drive is 160gb) Hoping Clonezilla would believe my drive was only 130GB (This still didn't work, it still told me the destination drive's too small)
Is there anything else I can do that I'm missing?
Last edited by Reded (2012-07-15 17:12:58)

Phew, thread is solved!
To R00KIE, your post actually helped me quite a lot - It turns out I was missing installing grub + regenerating initramfs
So how I did it:
GParted the new drive so it had a filesystem
Boot from a Ubuntu LiveCD,
mount both drives
copy-paste drive-to-drive (literally... used the cp command)
chroot into the new drive
adjust fstab/menu.lst
grub-install /dev/sda
mkinitcpo -p linux
reboot
PROFIT!
You're right ROOKIE, that whole process was far simpler than some websites make it out to be Thread closed!

[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

I am trying to plan an Arch install on a new laptop for dual boot with Windows 8.1, but I know there is a potential to cause huge problems so I have been trying to read and learn about the hard disk partition structure and how I might install the rEFInd boot files so that I am still able to boot Windows once Arch is installed. (Unfortunately for some tasks such as updating the maps on my satnav box Windows is essential). However I am really quite unsure if I am doing the right thing in the way I am thinking about the Arch install so I would appreciate any help from experts on the forum.
The laptop is a Lenovo IdeaPad Y510p which came with Windows 8 pre-installed, with the option to upgrade to Windows 8.1. The upgrade was completed without issue and I then looked into the question of hard drive partitions and boot. I had read posts on the Ubuntu forums about users who had installed Ubuntu on this same laptop and ended up being unable to boot Windows afterwards so I wanted to tread very carefully before executing anything which might cause really major damage. I had also read on the Lenovo forums replies about people who had replaced the hard drive and installed linux only to find that they could not boot to the recovery partitions, with replies from Lenovo moderators saying that if the partition structure had been changed then the laptop would have to be sent back to Lenovo for a factory repair.
On this laptop to get into the bios or boot options you do not just press the power button and hit an F key, but instead there is a special small "OneKey Recovery" button next to the power jack, which opens up with options for BIOS setup and boot options as well as normal boot or recovery. This OneKey Recovery button is therefore needed to boot a usbkey - the power button only allows it to boot to windows presumably until/unless a different bootloader and NVRAM entry is amended.
I have done all the initial ( safe!)changes necessary to move to the point at which I can execute the Arch install. From within Windows (switched off fastboot, and shrunk the "C:" drive to make space for linux partitions). I have also switched off Secure Boot from the BIOS, and made sure that Windows still boots up fine.
The current arch install iso (February 2014) boots under uefi just fine - and of course once booted I have access to the gdisk programme. That certainly showed the pre-existing partitions on the drive (8 partitions with partition number 2 being the EFI partition, and three recovery partitions!) with a GPT partition table, and it should therefore be possible to make the necessary new linux partitions in the now unallocated space on the disk that was freed up with the internal disk management facility within Windows 8.1. So at that point I created three partitions for a root partition (type 8300), a swap partition (type 8200) and another type 8300 partition which will become /opt in the installed Arch system.
In order to try and not make any changes to the partition structure I let the three new linux partitions be number 9, 10 and 11.
I am told that for a GPT disk it is a definite no-no to try to create more than one EFI partition. So I will need to use the existing EFI partition to place the rEFInd files and the kernel once I install Arch.
In this (Y510p) laptop the EFI partition contains the following structure:
BOOT/ - containing only boot.sdi
BOOTSECT.BAK
EFI/ which contains two directories Boot/ and Microsoft/
so EFI/Boot/ contains only Boot64.efi which is likely a fallback copy of the Windows 8.1 bootloader
and EFI/Microsoft/ contains a Boot/ directory - so
EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ contains loads of language specific directories like en-GB/
plus bootmgfw.efi (which I believe is the Windows main efi loader file)
bootmgr.efi
memtest.efi
The scheme that I am planning to use which I have previously used in pure Arch uefi machines, is that /boot is a directory in the root partition, /. That way /boot is an ext4 directory and will contain the kernel and initramfs plus the rEFInd linux config file.
Then I can mount the EFI (vfat) partition as /boot/efi and so I can then make a /boot partition under /. Then the EFI /BOOT/ directory would be seen in Linux as /boot/efi/BOOT/ and the Windows efi stuff would be in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Microsoft/Boot/ in which case I would presume that I have to make a new directory in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ and put the refind stuff including the filesystem drivers there, and let the kernel go into the (ext4) /boot/ directory which would be preferred! However I am not 100% confident that this is what will work and I need to read more before trying to do the install. The thing that concerns me is how the system will handle the uefi boot process, and whether it would auto-detect the Windows efi file as well as the Arch refind efi file once the system has started up?
... and then there is the issue of the NVRAM entries and I am no longer confident that if I use the usual tools to create an entry (efiboomgr or bcfg), that I will get a successful dual boot system!
There is still a chance that I would irrevocably damage being able to boot to the Windows and Recovery partition boot options by messing up the EFI and/or the NVRAM so I have to tread very very carefully with this.
If anyone has gone through this kind of dual boot install with a Windows 8 or 8.1 machine using rEFInd for the bootloader, and can offer advice or help here I would very much appreciate it. I have another pure Arch system which uses rEFInd that works extremely well, but it seems that dual boot with uefi is a rather more complex animal than a pure linux system!
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-06-25 17:41:12)

Dual boot Arch and Windows XP (arch installed first) [solved]

I recently moved over to arch from Ubuntu, and would like to install Windows XP so that I can dual-boot between the two. However, my arch install created four partitions on my disk, and I can not create another one.
I would rather not have to reinstall arch, as setting it back up would take days on my current network connection. Is this possible? While I have installed XP over Ubuntu in the past (and am more than able to reform the MBR after the XP install) I have absolutely no experience with disk-partitioning, so concise instructions would be very much appreciated.
errata: my laptop has 4 gigs of RAM, so I don't think I need the SWAP partition. I am hesitant to delete it outright however.
this is a Gparted screenshot, running off of a Ubuntu live CD. The 60 gigs of unallocated space is where I was hoping to install windows.
Last edited by spotdart (2009-02-05 17:13:55)

What's on /dev/sda4? If you can blow away the last partition, turn the whole thing into an extended partition and then you can set up as many logical partitions as you want inside the extended partition. I suppose Arch is probably on sda4 and if that is the case you could move arch to sda3 first--there are lots of posts in the forum about how to move an installation of arch from one place to another.
Edit: Beat to the punch again. Yeah like he said you might want to delete the swap partition and then incorporate it into the 1st or third partitions so you can free up that last one.
Last edited by bgc1954 (2009-02-05 15:27:21)

[SOLVED] Triple Boot on Macbook 5,5 kills my arch install

I am currently trying to get a triple boot working on my mid 2009 macbook pro. I have 3 seperate partitions set up so that i can just launch the OS's with rEFInd.
Problem is.. as soon as I get all of them installed and up and running. I will try to boot cycle all of them to make sure everything is working as planned.
i boot OSX, everything is good
i boot Windows 7, again good to go.
as soon as i boot arch AFTER windows it kills the install it seems. the system will lock up at
starting version 217
/dev/sda6: recovering journal
/dev/sda6 clean, XXXXXX/xxxxxx files, XXXXXX/xxxxxx blocks
I am not quite sure how to find a log or anything since i cannot even boot into the system.
it ONLY happens after I boot into windows.
Already tested my ram per someone elses advice. everything turned out ok with that
the arch install works great if i only boot osx or arch.
I am not using bootcamp
i could chroot in and look for the log im just not sure where it would be.
i will gladly post that as well if i can get the location
Last edited by BoomZooka (2014-12-08 07:07:01)

ended up finally figuring out the issue
Figured out I couldnt see what was going on was, because I had a kernel parameter set as quiet for some reason. So it was not showing me anything which led me to run across a blog online that described system lockups at boot.
Added this to the kernel boot parameters in my grub.cfg on the linux line. After I did that everything booted like normal.
nomodeset reboot=pci
credits to http://dreamtimecircles.com/2013/10/06/arch/

[SOLVED] Windows/Arch UEFI--kernel panic at bootloader install?

I've been trying for two days now to get a Windows/Arch dual boot going, UEFI style. After HOURS of struggle (it's hell being a noob) I managed to get Windows 7 installed UEFI-style from a USB. Arch install is fine until I get to the step that involves installing a bootloader, and everything turns to crap.
Some kind of....I don't even know what. Core dump?? A screen full of numbers & letters!
With both rEFInd and gummiboot (haven't tried grub yet), I get the same result:
http://imgur.com/XS6NxzV
What the heck is going on?!
Last edited by wilberfan (2014-04-20 02:38:13)

Just INSTALLING gummiboot causes mass chaos:
http://imgur.com/VWJNbvD
There's a whole screen full of "call traces" and stuff... UNINSTALLING gummiboot generates a metric ton of this stuff, too....
[edit] Something is SERIOUSLY borked in my system. I've now gotten the identical (or very similar) result trying to install gummiboot, rEFInd, AND grub. Some kind of kernel panic, or something...
All of that screen verbage going by is WAY above my pay grade at this point... :-/
Last edited by wilberfan (2014-04-18 17:00:48)

[Solved!]Arch grub2 install from cd

Hi, I'm somewhat new to Arch, but not new to Linux. I'm very new though to UEFI and I just did a Windows 7 install on my new desktop with 8gbs of ram. before I installed Windows I tried Arch on it and got it to work without a gui, but that's beside the point. In order to Install windows I had to overwrite my Arch install, because Windows 7 refused to write to the hard drive.
My issue is that I have a comp that has BIOS and UEFI, but I can't use both so I've been trying to install grub2 using these instructions Arch Linux Grub2 but for some reason after I chroot into the system and start using pacman it gives the no address record error after the first refresh. So I tried different repos and they didn't work. I also tried the same repo and it won't refresh. I've looked all over for a solution, but I haven't found one. I've went over my pacman.conf and mirrorlist files and the only thing that I changed on them is uncommenting 1 repo in the mirrorlist. I can ping google and the repos too so it's not my network. I need grub2 in order to dual-boot Arch and Windows 7 with UEFI as I understand it. Any ideas?
Edit: I just tried it a few days later and it worked. I'm guessing my ISP or the mirrors were affecting it somehow.
Last edited by Jonnothin (2011-10-20 21:18:07)

Okay. I'm using dhcp, but could the connection be intermittent given the current info? Because near the beginning of my trying to do this it started to download and one time I even got pacman updated, but stopped working soon afterward.
Last edited by Jonnothin (2011-10-18 21:00:02)

[SOLVED] ARCH Install Freezes While making fallback image

Hi,
I am having some issues install arch on my desktop, the install is freezing while generating the 'fallback' image, this makes no sense to me as it has just compiled the main image, and should be the exact same.
I have run memtest x86 on each stick of ram (one at a time, and both in at the same time) with no errors.
I have tried both the X86_64 and the i686 both on CD and USB, and the install froze during the fallback kernel every time.
I am using the 2009.08 versions. and have downloaded the images from both mirror.internode and the main arch website link.
I have tried Zero filling the hard-drive with seatool, and it has passed a S.M.A.R.T HDD test (also on seatools)
I am just about to try a different distro just to check. I had arch installed last week but something went incredibly wrong during the last update, so i chose to format it and start fresh.
Any ideas?
Last edited by viruzeno (2010-02-09 12:11:29)

I have Worked out the problem. it seems my new blu-ray burner is having issues with linux, i need to track down a driver.
I disconnected the drive and the install finished fine. not too sure how it was causing the error.

[Solved] How to install KDE unstable

I've been meaning to try KDE4.5 to see if it is any more to my liking then the previous versions of KDE 4.
So how would I go about installing KDE 4.5 on my arch install?
Last edited by Mmarzex (2010-07-12 15:45:52)

Mmarzex wrote:
sand_man wrote:Make sure the [kde-unstable] repo entry in pacman.conf is above the [extra] entry.
Okay thanks that worked. I wasn't aware that the order in pacman.conf actually matter.
It does because the name of the app is the same (kde) it will pick it up from the first available repo that has the app/group named kde.
also, since your question has been answered, please mark the thread as [SOLVED]

When the message arrives, the message tone sound that many times. How this problem can be solved? I installed the new version, but the problem is not resolved, the future is to be taken into account in the new version of this?

When the message arrives, the message tone sound that many times. How this problem can be solved? I installed the new version, but the problem is not resolved, the future is to be taken into account in the new version of this?

I'm not sure I understand the question, is the message tone going more then once?
Turn off repeat message alert here:
settings > notifications > messages > repeat alert > never
Some people have found this does not stop the repeat miessage tone,
if you are one of those then I suggest you contact Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
They may not respond, but hopefully will fix in uodate if enough people complain.

[Solved]Portable Arch install

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for