SD Card (MMC) as root not being able to boot

[PD-Kerman]

Which ISO version are you using?

2024.09.01 (archlinux-2024.09.01-x86_64)

The installation log

installation was successful
will attach later if necessary

Description of the issue

I was installing archlinux on a laptop into SanDisk Extreme 256 mSD Card (SN256)

Then after installing with archinstall and rebooting (for multiple times)

Something like this showed up:

ERROR: device 'UUID=<uuid>' not found. Skiiping fsck. mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<uuid>. You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.

**# i was using recommended disk partition solution (and regardless of using ext4 and btrfs) and basically just cleaned/erased the whole disk and performed the installation **

for some reason i tried installing ubuntu and it works fine

But on archlinux installing with archinstall on to some kind of sd card or emmc devices it just crashes when rebooting, seemss like its not being able to find the root partition on the MMC disk

And i tried running blkid to get things checked and found that none of the mmcblk partition showed up with any infos, basically no outputs(neither the boot partition nor the root), but quite contrarily, when i plug in some usb devices after being dumped into the emergency shell, and execute blkid again, u could surprisingly found all kinds of uuid infos in the output of the usb device(flash drive)

and i found this post in the forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234313 which very much the same

but i modified the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as it was being mentioned in the post and tried running mkinitcpio -P and mkinitcpio linux in the chroot enviroment(not sure i did it exactly right in some scenarios when chroot(ing) manually after rebooted, although the output seems fine) in order to get things updated, but no joy, the issue still remains

not sure whats causing it, regardly, FYI, i also checked out the archwiki and tried switching the order of the elements in the HOOK section(block keyboard) and the update using the very same command as well, didnt help though

Any sort help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance, Best Regards

[svartkanin]

@PD-Kerman could you provide the install.log as it provides a better way to debug the issue

[PD-Kerman]

@PD-Kerman could you provide the install.log as it provides a better way to debug the issue

Thank you for your reply, Yeah about this issue, i guess it should just be some kind of weird mmc blocks supports that mkinitcpio comes with, i tried all kinds of tricks by modifying the config file (MODULES, HOOKS) all kinds of stuff, didnt really helped

its related to the initramfs, i tried to re-generate the initramfs using dracut with using the default profile/configs from dracut (by not specifying) it booted right away

I guess it should be an archlinux(mkinitcpio) issue it self which archinstall doesnt have much to do about it(tried manual installation) so...

Thank you for replying once again

And considering its not much related to archinstall, considering closing this issue soon (within days)

Best Regards, PD-Kerman