west urchin
So i have a laptop with a 10th gen i3 and 8 gigs of ram with windows 11, i wanted to install arch on it but when i boot into the usb i get some errors and it goes into the emergency shell, i think its called that, but when i try the same usb in an older laptop it works perfectly and im not sure what to do. I have been using linux for some time but i am not super tech savvy, help is appreciated
magic vapor
That UUID is just straight up invalid. How did you generate your fstab
west urchin
I didn't do anything yet, just booted to the live usb
magic vapor
Hmm. Those UUIDs dont' really make sense to me, but lets look.
You should also, in theory, be able to run lsblk/blkid/ or even just look at what is in /dev/disk/by-uuid/
magic vapor
So the USB drive that you just booted off of isn't being detected. I see the usb 3-5 can't set config, so maybe the USB slot is funky? In the boot menu, did you select the option that says something like "Boot into ramdisk" or something like that?
I don't recall the exact term used
tl;dr Could you just do the dumb thing of rebooting and seeing if that fixes it? I suspect the USB drive just stopped getting detected. lsblk should show the USB drive, if it's plugged in, which it's not
west urchin
This is what i get when selecting the boot device
For some reason i get 2 entries of the usb
The sandisk one
I tried rebooting a few times to no avail
magic vapor
Re-imaging the flash drive may help, it may also be reasonable to try different USB ports.
~/tmp> ls boot/2025-10-01-16-09-23-00.uuid
╭───┬──────────────────────────────────┬──────┬──────┬────────────╮
│ # │ name │ type │ size │ modified │
├───┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────┼──────┼────────────┤
│ 0 │ boot/2025-10-01-16-09-23-00.uuid │ file │ 0 B │ a week ago │
╰───┴──────────────────────────────────┴──────┴──────┴────────────╯
In the picture you showed, it's trying to find that file which is on the ISO you installed on to the flash drive.
Could you validate that said file is there on windows/another machine?
west urchin
Okay this is bizarre, i had already tried the 2 usb ports the laptop has and it was the same issue but now i tried pluggin the usb to a dongle connected to a usb c port and somehow it worked
Weird but i'll take it
magic vapor
who knows man
I would make sure that the USB ports work for other things before going much futher
i.e plug in another keyboard or something to make sure the ports aren't fucked within linux for some reason
west urchin
Thats the weird part, they work otherwise, it was just for this it refused to work
magic vapor
magic vapor
I did nothing