El mar, 03-01-2012 a las 11:59 -0500, Chris Brennan escribió: > Greetings! Just to give everyone a clue, this is not my first go-around > with Linux, I'm an old hand of sorts, but this is my first time using > ArchLinux, so please bare with me here. > > My target install is an Asus A53E laptop (re-modeled K53E) and I am > installing to an external USB Hard-Drive. The hard-drive is a 750GB > Seagate 2.5" SATAII drive in an external enclosure. The target arch is > x86_64. > > I stepped though the install without incident, it moved along > flawlessly, I accepted all the defaults and the dual-arch install > preformed as intended. The problem arose when I went to reboot for the > first time. Now, this laptop behaves strangely in that I can't just go > into the BIOS and change the boot order to the external (it does not show > up at > all there, just the internal hard-drive and the dvd-ram) and everything > stays > the same, things truly are dynamic in this machine. I have to hit escape at > the > 'ASUS' boot logo (which I cannot turn off for the life of me!) several > times, > just to get the BBS menu to appear, from there, I can select the external, > now > once the external is selected I am presented with the grub menu as > expected, I > select the first menu option to boot the standard kernel and then it would > immediately fail saying it couldn't read from a FAT partition, I was like > WTF!?! It took me a little while to realize that I had to change the root > entry > from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), once I figured that out (about 5 reinstalls later) > I > got the message stating it was booting from the kernel, then it would > immediately drop me to the recovery shell. This was WTF!?! moment #2. The > first > thing I did was to snoop /dev and all I could see was /dev/sda1-3. WTF!?! > Moment #3! So I rebooted to the cd, remounted and chrooted into the new > environment and rebuilt my CPIO archive (by far this was the easiest part!), > after it was done, I rebooted again, no dice! I still get dropped > immediately > to the recovery prompt, and I still have no sdb (which is where the > installer > sees the external when on the install cd). > > So I am at a loss as to what to do now. I spoke with a few people over at > freenode/#archlinux and a john_f suggested that my issue may be related to > the > fact that this laptop is USB3 .... so WTF then, what am I missing in my cpio > archive that is present in the installer image (which can see my external > just > fine!) > > I copied some files from the chroot environment to my local web-server > > http://69.116.93.166:2500/~chris/nix/arch/ > > If you have any more/other questions please don't hesitate to ask. > > -- > > > Chris Brennan > > A: Yes. > > >Q: Are you sure? > > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ try to change root=/dev/sdXY to root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/UUID in your kernel/linux line in grub/grub2 config file. this could help https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_a_USB_key Sorry! my english it's not good.
