Arch Linux

SzBence3

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Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

I tried to install arch exactly as described on the arch wiki with grub. While booting arch I was shown the following Lines for a minute:

Loading Linux linux...
Loading initial ramdisk...

Then I saw the following error message on the screen

[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/.<some uuid>.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /sysroot.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Mountpoints Configured in the Real Root
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root Device
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for File System .<the same uuid>.
You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb " to view system logs, "systemctl reboot" or reboot to "exit"
to continue bootup.

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.
See sulogin(8) man page for more details.

Press Enter to continue.

I copied it with hand so there  might be some mistakes.
I'm on a Lenovo 300w Yoga Gen 4 laptop.
I have tried with archinstall before and I got a similiar message about not finding a device.
What should I do?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Doesn't boot first install. Timed out for waiting for device

"<some uuid>" will be really important and you want to compare that to the output of "lsblk -f" from the install iso.

I copied it with hand so there  might be some mistakes.

Don't. Also because it's tedious.
From the running install iso you can

lsblk -f | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and post the url you get and for the failing boot rather link an image (you can upload a photo to imgur, make sure that the UUID is readable)

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