On 29 November 2010 05:22, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or > a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even > detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive > too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an > earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too. Hi Jude I think you probably need to edit mkinitcpio.conf with the right hooks, like this: HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata sata scsi usb filesystems"