I am trying to install Arch Linux on VirtualBox, however, when I am trying to mount the filesystems I get an error: 'unknown filesystem type ext4'.
I know there is a lot of people ran into the same problem and there's plenty of information available on the net but I can't seem to find a solution.
the output of fdisk -l
:
Root@archiso ~ fdisk –l
Disk /dev/sda: 64GiB, 68719476736 bytes, 134217728 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x17c5711e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 411648 8603647 8192000 3.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 8603648 134217727 125614080 59.9.G 83 Linux
Disk /dev/loop0: 403 MiB, 422539264 bytes, 825272 sectors
The error I get when I run mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
:
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'.
By the way, how can I copy the contents of a command from VirtualBox Arch installer? I copied it the hard way! the mouse is invisible inside the ZSH and I can't use redirection > in order to save the contents as no filesystem is mounted.
Thanks.
Best Answer
Encountered the same problem with Arch guest on Virtualbox, solved by booting into live media, chrooting again into installed system:
and reinstalling the kernel:
Not sure why ext4 module gets removed, though.