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#1 2012-04-14 17:27:41 wLee Member From: Amsterdam, NL Registered: 2008-12-06 Posts: 33 [SOLVED] Fresh install won't boot - error 21 and number of root device I think I was not very clear in my explanation of the problem and didn't provide enough information, so I edited y original post fro yesterday. Hopefully someone sees my mistake and can tell me what I can do to get it right.The problem is my pc with a fresh install does not boot, not the base kernel and not the fallback image.My pc is an Asus Eee pc 900A and the Arch iso is downloaded last fridaynight and dd if= on a https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1015176 usb memorystick.Basically it gives two errors, the first is at first boot after install:Error 1:Booting 'Arch Linux' root (hd1,1) Error 21: Selected disk does not existThe second error appears if root changed to (hd0,0), wich I tried because grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 answers (hd0,0).Error 2::: Loading Initramfs :: Starting udevd... done. Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sdb1 ... Root device '/dev/sdb1/ doesn't exist. Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139628 of root device '/dev/sdb1/'. You are being dropped to a recovery shellAfter reading every topic I could find concerning this I tried the following:- Ad 'quiet' to the kernel line in the menu.lst = Did not boot.- Ad rootfstype=ext2 to the kernel line in the menu.lst = Did not boot.- Labeled the drives in fstab and menu.lst to workaround possible partition switches = Did not boot. - Removed 'autodetect' from /etc/mkinitcpio = Did not work.- Mount, chroot, pacman -Syu or -S udev or -S mkinitcpio or whatever gives the following error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) util-linux: /bin/mountpoint exists in filesystem util-linux: /usr/share/man/man1/mountpoint.1.gz exists in filesystem filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem errors occured, no packages were upgraded.- Pacman -S filesystem --force replies:error: could not determine filesysem mount points error: not enought free disk spaceThese are my /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst# # /etc/fstab: static file system information # #
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