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FS#37846 - ARCH_201311 installation stops, device not showing up

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Opened by Alex. M. (AlexM) - Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 19:11 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 02:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I have a 2005 Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO A1667G that cannot boot from USB (no such option in the latest BIOS version) and the CD/DVD drive cannot be used for various reasons. As such, I have created a small partition on which I have copied the ARCH_201311 image which I have marked as bootable with EasyBCD (the image, not the partition). This trick booted the Arch image, but the installation process stopped with the following error:

::Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201311' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201311 ...
ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201311' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix this problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
[rootfs /]#

Currently I'm using Windows 7 that I'd like to get rid of... This error seems to show up quite frequently, judging by the results brought up by a web search, but in the context of USB sticks, while I am installing from a hard-disk partition. I've considered this bug as "High severity", since it makes the product completely unusable for me.
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 02:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Please use forums to support request. Thanks.

https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.g it/tree/docs/README.transfer#n62
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 19:49 GMT
> I've considered this bug as "High severity", since it makes the product completely unusable for me.
Strange conclusion, since not using the image in a way that we distribute it.

The error is pretty clear -- you've not labelled the partition correctly for the initramfs to locate it, mount it, and switch into it. Either change your partition label, or change the bootloader entry.

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