Arch Installation Problems

Jamie23 · 12 Jul 2011 at 02:29

Hey guys, thought i'd try Arch out since I've been using Mint for the last year or so and really loving it, having some problems while trying to follow the Arch beginner guide though.

Trying to set up a dual boot with Windows 7 so have selected Manually Partition Hardrives, made:
sda2 20gb, type 83 to hold the root folder,
sda3 4gb, type 82 to hold the swap
sda4 16gb, type 83 to hold home

Then proceeded to Manually configure block devices...
For SDA2 - Clicked yes to recreate the filesystem, and made it ext3 and made the mountpoint root,
For sda3 - clicked yes to recreate the filesystem, made it swap
For sda4 - Clicked yes to recreate the filesystem, made it ext3 and made the mounpoint home.

When I tried to continue it then told me "Error mounting /dev/sda2 on /mnt/" and then the same for sda4.

Quite confused as I've followed the beginner guide pretty much I think. :confused:

Thanks for reading!

randomist · 13 Jul 2011 at 01:52

did you definately hit "w" to write the partition table to disk and finalize operations? (think its w from memory at least). It seems like the new partitions you should have aren't there yet.

jack.mitchell · 13 Jul 2011 at 20:26

The installer is also a bit funny with partitions, the roll back feature I have found to be a bit buggy, did you do everything right first time without going back and making changes then trying to write?

Which ISO image are you using, I would recommend getting the latest BETA ISO from here: http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/

Jamie23 · 14 Jul 2011 at 21:17

Thanks guys, I tried again today, rewrote over all the linux partitions and set them up again...this time no issue, pretty sure I changed nothing from the original set up but I'm not complaining

Ran into my next problem though. Trying to set up my wireless connection whilst following the guide.

iwconfig brought up:

lo - no wireless extensions.
eth0 - no wireless extensions
wlan0 - IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power-0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Encryption key:0ff
Power Management: on

So from this I gathered that it has found my wireless card? I then tried:
ip link set wlan0 up
to see if it needed firmware and the output was:
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

Taking this as needing firmware so tried:
dmesg | grep firmware,

the ouput was:
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV770_pfp.bin
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV770_me.bin
r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R700_rlc.bin"
[drm:rv770_startup] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
rt73usb 1-2:1.0: firmware: requesting rt73.bin
phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV770_rlc.bin

To try and get the firmware sorted I read from the wireless page and consulting my chipset that the ralink chipset is supported (2500usb):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Using_the_new_rt2x00_beta_driver

but the second command "modprobe 80211" just returns:
FATAL: Module 80211 not found

Not really sure where to go from here, had a quick google but only became more confused hah, apologies if this is trivial.