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I just did a pacman update, and now I'm confronted with the following messages when I try to boot:
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/sdb7' unknown
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter.
Waiting for devices to settle...done.
Root device '/dev/sdb7' doesn't exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to pars block device name for '/dev/sdb7'
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/sdb7'
Dropping recovery shell... type 'exit' to reboot
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo *' instead
If device '/dev/sdb7' gets created while you are here, try adding 'rootdelay=8' or higher to the kernel command-line
I've tried using "sda" instead of "sdb", but that doesn't work, either. I've also tried "hda", but no dice (btw... how to I know what to use?)
I've tried reinstalling/rolling back my kernel... and I made sure that I use "pata" in the "HOOKS=" line of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
I must be missing something... what am I doing wrong?
Thanks .
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Did you try the fallback initrd?
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Even selecting the "fallback" option from Grub yields the same error message. I can't seem to find what I'm missing, here...
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What do you get for sda7 or sdb7 from the mount command? I would rerun pacman.
From your - NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo *' instead, I would guess this lib possibly has a problem.
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I can mount /dev/sd17 fine... but /dev/sdb7 doesn't exit.
I finally gave up on this problem and reinstalled... still have no clue what caused this problem...
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I have the same problem intermittently.
When it happens I just type exit and most of the times it works fine after reboot.
But as I said is very intermittent.
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i have exaclty the same problem: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 39#p376939
whats wrong here ?
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If having this problem intermittently, try to add the kernel command 'rootdelay=8' on the kernel command line of grub, that should do the trick.
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Same problem here with new RT kernel, i tried rootdelay, rootfstype but nothing. There may some problem n common. What type of HD are you people using? how about kernel?
Im using a SATA HD but arch detects it as an ATA device. weird...
kernel - 2.6.29.5, realtime patched.
OS -----> Arch Linux DE -----> KDE4
CPU ---> 2.66GHz RAM ---> 512 MB
SWAP -> 2 G / -------> 10 G
/home -> 50 G /boot ---> 64 MB
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I had the same problem yesterday just after an update, I don't know what to do, neither rootfstype nor rootdelay options have worked. Please I need some help
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Note: Probably better to open up a new topic on this Ineluki and describe the details as best as you can.
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