(NVMe?) searching for porteus, device not ready, porteus data not found

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searching for porteus, device not ready, porteus data not found

Post#16 by rych » 28 Mar 2019, 06:07

neko, I successfully boot after a few restarts always. This problem only happens on the new Dell computers with /dev/nvme host system disk drives which do not claim the names /dev/sda. So, /dev/sda become partitions of my USB drive. That's unusual. I'm used to seeing my USB disk to be sdb etc. I think I'd better add it to the subject line. NVMe is relatively new technology and porteus only supports it as of version 4.0. Here's the FAQ from DELL: https://www.dell.com/support/article/nz ... ds?lang=en.

Still problem could be unrelated to NVMe. After all, when finally booted everything works just fine: all the disks and partitions are mounted and accessible. It's just on slightly older Dells without NVMe this problem doesn't appear (with the same USB stick).

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Post#17 by neko » 28 Mar 2019, 07:46

@rych
Congratulation !!

My PC has device partitions as following.

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# mount
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/mmcblk0p1 type vfat (rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /mnt/mmcblk0p2 type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/mmcblk0p3 on /mnt/mmcblk0p3 type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,stripe=8191)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/sdb1 type vfat (rw,noatime,nodiratime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,check=s,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sdb2 on /mnt/sdb2 type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime)
The device mnemonic assignment (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb) is dynamic changed depending connection via USB.
So I usually use an UUID as boot device notation.
Please refer to trying to setup grub2 for Porteus Mate (Post by neko #70443)


Thanks.

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Post#18 by rych » 30 Mar 2019, 04:36

neko, what exactly should I do?

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Post#19 by neko » 31 Mar 2019, 02:34

@rych
No, you don't need to do anything.

I am sorry to disturb you.
It is only a little advice to help on some trouble.

Thank.

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