Am Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:43:42 -0500 schrieb Carlos Williams <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx>: > Every time I try and install Arch Linux 2009.08 Netinst .ISO disk on > my newly built PC hardware, I get the following error: > > Waiting for boot device... > Error: Boot device didn't show up after 30 seconds... > Falling back to interactive prompt. > You can try and fix the problem manually, log out when you're > finished. ramfs$ > > The same ISO works perfect on my laptop and other PC's but on my > personal $1,000 PC, it doesn't. I can't figure this out. I also tried > the 2009.08 Core disk and I get the same thing as with the 'Netinst' > disk. > > I don't know if it's because I have a S-ATA DVD-ROM drive on this > machine. I can boot from disk and see the Arch install options...even > play "Space Invaders". But when I select the install Arch Linux > options, it boots into a 'Live' environment and then hangs on the > error above. Someone please help... See this bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231?project=6 You should be able to continue booting by entering these commands at the ramfs$ prompt: udevadm trigger exit It's not a fix but a workaround. And this bug really needs to be fixed because PCs nowadays are usually SATA only systems. Greetings, Heiko
