On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 08:22:54 AM Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 03:13:36AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Are you using something like > > http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/iso/2011.08.19/? Did you use > > core > > image or netinstall one? > > I will answer this one now and provide more details later. > > Yes that sort of was the iso location. I downloaded core, though after > facing the issue, using same CD, I chose all online repos and reinstalled. > > Through chroot I have reinstalled everything by now including the kernel, > redone initramfs etc. I can confirm that all reinstalls are ok, since if I > try to do it now, it does nothing as it finds it up to date. > > I must mention that my installation is on an external USB drive. I can see > that on booting the installation it sees internal drives but no the > external one. > > It drops me to a prompt saying it could not find the root partition. > > I have also observed, while in this prompt that module usb_storage is not > found in /lib/modules (which I guess is required for USB drive). My guess > is necessary kernel modules are not getting included in the initial image.
I guess you need to add necessary modules to hooks section of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild the initramfs image. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
