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  • if you re-plugin your USB drive, can you tail /var/log/message to identify exactly where is it mounting (ie sda,sdb) Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 6:46
  • negative, in arch linux there is not messages inside /var/log. what I see is btmp faillog journal lastlog old pacman.log wtmp Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 6:50
  • you have already tried "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb2 /mnt/usbdisk" or "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdisk" ? Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 7:07
  • yes, I also changed usb filesystem format to ext4, but still cannot loads it. it instead load /root filesystem with sdb1 and sda1/2. Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 7:10
  • can you try to boot without your drive run dmesg to see which disk are pick-up and then plug in your drive and run dmesg again to identify exactly which one is your usb disk. Commented Jun 1, 2013 at 7:20