Am Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:42:25 +0100 schrieb Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst@xxxxxxxxx>: > I'm attempting to create my own Arch Live CD and I can't get the > archiso hook to complete successfully. > > In March 2010, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi removed the archiso_early hook > from archiso.git, which used to mount /dev/archiso (I'm not entirely > sure what this pointed to, but it's clearly required). In the commit > message he said it was removed because we could rely > on /dev/disk/by-label to get the device (created by udev). > > However I have built a custom live CD using mkarchiso and there is no > /dev/disk available to me, so this boot process fails. > > I was just wondering if anyone knew why this is missing, and what I > can do to get this booting? > > My mkinitcpio.conf file looks like this: > > *HOOKS="base udev memdisk archiso archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_loop_mnt > pata scsi sata usb fw pcmcia filesystems usbinput"* Is it this bug? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17231 If you get the ramfs$ prompt you can as a workaround run `udevadm trigger` wait a few seconds and then enter `exit`. Heiko
