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hellknight

BSD init pwns System V
^^ico.. one more question.. I tried your method but the kernel doesn't loads the virtualbox modules. Neither are the other modules loaded.. something's wrong.. But on the bright side, i'm getting full speed when copying files to NTFS partitions..
 

skeletor

Chosen of the Omnissiah
ok, I updated my rc.conf.

it's same apart from CPU Frequency Ondemand scaling.

PHP:
#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "", "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
#   Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged, using "" makes hwclock fall back
#   to the value in /var/lib/hwclock/adjfile
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
#   Note: if unset, the value in /etc/localtime is used unchanged
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Asia/Kolkata"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
#   Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
#   /etc/modprobe.d:
#     blacklist module
#   See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
#
MODULES=(coretemp acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand)

# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"

# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="omzoc"

# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
#   - interface: name of device (required)
#   - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
#   - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP) (optional, defaults to 255.255.255.0)
#   - broadcast: broadcast address (ignored for DHCP) (optional)
#   - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# 
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# broadcast=192.168.0.255
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=

interface=
address=
netmask=
broadcast=
gateway=

# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
#
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng alsa dbus networkmanager netfs crond cupsd cpufreq)
 

nims11

BIOS Terminator
^^ico.. one more question.. I tried your method but the kernel doesn't loads the virtualbox modules. Neither are the other modules loaded.. something's wrong.. But on the bright side, i'm getting full speed when copying files to NTFS partitions..

what is the error when loading modules through modprobe. like in
modprobe vboxdrv
?
 

njathan

Right off the assembly line
I've seen this happen quite a few times with other packages on an odd day. IMO this should either be a temporary error, or you need to fix the issues with the latest pacman major version.
 

hellknight

BSD init pwns System V
^^Nims11, I can manually load the modules, I've even made a shell script & copied it to the /etc/rc.local file.. They're loading fine now, but now I'm getting very less copying speed on NTFS drives..
 

Desmond

Destroy Erase Improve
Staff member
Admin
Sorry for cutting in....

I am new to Archlinux and would like to try it out on Virtualbox for Windows. I have an i5 lap and the x86-64 ISO, but when I try to boot into the iso from Virtualbox, i get the error "This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - Please use a kernel appropriate to your CPU". Please help....or point me in the right direction.
 

nims11

BIOS Terminator
^^ in settings for the virtual machine, goto System->Accelaration -> select enable VT-x/AMD-V
 

hellknight

BSD init pwns System V
Some of the laptops have this extension disabled from the BIOS. First check if your Windows is 64-bit or not. If yes, then reboot the system, open BIOS & enable the CPU extension if it is disabled.
 

Desmond

Destroy Erase Improve
Staff member
Admin
FYI, I have an HP G6 lap, purchased late last year. Core i5+4 gigs RAM.

Your Windows is x64 I hope.

Yup, it is. But, since the iso is x86-64, I think it should not matter, right?

Some of the laptops have this extension disabled from the BIOS. First check if your Windows is 64-bit or not. If yes, then reboot the system, open BIOS & enable the CPU extension if it is disabled.

Will this option be available a laptop BIOS? I'll check anyway.
 

DDIF

Custom User Title
@hellknight
Processor?
Board?
Arch up to date or not?

Try to disable AMD Boost in BIOS if you have that option.
 

hellknight

BSD init pwns System V
^^Everything's working fine now.. It's up-to-date.. I created a shell script & copied it to /etc/rc.local & it loads the required modules during boot. Sweet :)

Update:- Just found out that AMD Fusion works well under Arch Linux. So, if any of you guys have a AMD fusion based product, please, oh please, try & install Arch Linux on it and tell me about it's hardware acceleration. I'll be getting E-350 based motherboard for my needs.
 

hellknight

BSD init pwns System V
^^Woah!! With an integrated graphics core.. That is awesome.. Now suggest a cheap motherboard to go with this baby..
 

krishnandu.sarkar

Simply a DIGITian
Staff member
Hey guys, I recently installed Arch 64bit. And just updating the system using pacman -Syu. I haven't yet installed X.

The problem is, it's asking for replacing module-init-tools with core/kmod. If I answer yes it checks file integrity and all and lastly it throws error...

Code:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
no packages were upgraded

And if I answer no there, it asks for removing module-init-tools on which answering both yes and no gets to the same errors as stated above.

I tried removing module-init-tools, but it looks like many imp. packages need it, like mkinitcpio, kernel, udev etc.

Also I'd like to state, things that I've already tried...
Previously I was getting two errors..
1. filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem (As stated above)
2. something same related to /etc/locale.d/locale.sh

So I tried removing both, but both gets generated on reboot.

So I did a bit of googling and did grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab

BTW one more thing which I should mention, on boot df works fine. But after running pacman -Syu and getting those errors df says "df cannot read table of mounted file systems"

Same thing happens on removing /etc/mtab

Can anyone help me out here if someone has already gone through this??
 

skeletor

Chosen of the Omnissiah
^^^

Arch Linux - News: filesystem upgrade - manual intervention required

Code:
pacman -S filesystem --force
 
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