/lib/udev/rules.d/ contains 60-cdrom_id.rules which looks for cdroms and makes them /dev/sr#. So I'm guessing it's not seeing the disk that the initrd is loaded from? On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tom medhurst <tom.medhurst@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Thanks Heiko! > > That bug contains the same error message, but not sure it's for the same > reason. /dev/sr0 doesn't appear either for me. > For clarity, is /dev/disk/by-label/MY_LABEL supposed to point to my > installation CD, so isomounts can be loaded? Is that what this is trying to > do? > > I did get a ramfs prompt, but "udevadm trigger" does not seem to affect > /dev for me :( > > -tommed > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
