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installing arch on ntfs root right now (mastodon.lilysthings.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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installing arch on ntfs root right now

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i wonder if this will actually boot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

initramfs doesn't have necessary stuff to mount ntfs

gonna go get food and then fix that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

added ntfs to the initramfs but now it's having other issues so i give up

time to install arch on hfs+

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@i_[email protected] back in the days of kernel 2.6, i'm pretty sure this would have crashed and burned at the boot script not finding /dev/null, for lack of device node support in NTFS.

Can't stress enough how much I'm glad we have devtmpfs now.