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I give up with archlinux.<br>
Actually i cant even boot off a cd of archlinux! It only boot to the
grub command shell and that's all. I had to boot off from a gentoo cd
(no problem) and did an install of archlinux from that. But when i
boot, it always complain about the root device not found. With lilo and
grub.<br>
For grub, i tried "install-grub" and "grub-install" but it doesnt work.
I also tried to type "grub" to enter the grub shell, and to find the
stage1, but no success neither.<br>
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Finally i booted off a net-install debian cd, installed debian, and..with grub it doesnt work, but with lilo it works directly! <br>
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I dont understand why it does not support archlinux. Maybe the initrd
image created by archlinux during kernel building is not correct? But i
dont know enough about that and/or mkinitcpio.conf . If someone succeded to install archlinux, i would be happy to get some help. If not, i will keep debian.<br>
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Thanks again for ur help.<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr><b>From:</b> Tomasz Chmielewski [mailto:mangoo@wpkg.org]<br><b>To:</b> elmer@leet.la<br><b>Cc:</b> debian-non-standard@lists.wpkg.org<br><b>Sent:</b> Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:48:09 +0200<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [debian-non-standard] Debian on Thecus5200: how to read ide 44-pin<br><br><a href="mailto:elmer@leet.la">elmer@leet.la</a> schrieb:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> <br>
> It works perfectly with a usb/cdrom. I installed my prefered <br>
> distribution (archlinux)<br>
> Now im fighting with grub & lilo. At boot sequence, it says it cant find <br>
> the root (Root device '/dev/hda1' doesn't exist, attempting to create it)<br>
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Can you boot from the CDROM?<br>
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The easiest would be to boot off a CDROM, plug in the USB-stick.<br>
Mount the filesystem on the USB-stick, and do lilo -r /mnt/usb_stick.<br>
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For grub, use grub-install command.<br>
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-- <br>
Tomasz Chmielewski<br>
<a href="http://wpkg.org" target="_blank">http://wpkg.org</a><br>
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