[solved] 'device not found' after update

swordfish · 2012-05-21 18:02:10

Hi there,

I'm having some update trouble. After todays update (new kernel, new mkinitcpio, new udev etc.) my system doesn't start anymore. Quite early during boot up, I'm thrown back to a recovery shell with this message:

ERROR: device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/ce9235a4 ...' not found. Skipping fsck.
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid ...'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell.

It's an external USB drive.

Any idea what to do about this?

Last edited by swordfish (2012-05-21 20:28:23)

wonder · 2012-05-21 18:12:29

are you using testing?

swordfish · 2012-05-21 18:27:50

wonder wrote:

are you using testing?

Jepp

swordfish · 2012-05-21 20:32:16

Ok, seems I could solve the prob with the help of the pacman wiki site

Sorry, needed some time to find that useful help!

wonder · 2012-05-21 20:34:21

you need to regenerate initrd because udev was updated after linux was installed.
you can do that using a livecd or if you have other kernel like lts
# mkinitcpio -p linux

swordfish · 2012-05-21 20:38:32

wonder wrote:

you need to regenerate initrd because udev was updated after linux was installed.
you can do that using a livecd or if you have other kernel like lts
# mkinitcpio -p linux

Jepp, I've used an USB flash drive and a netinstall image. With the help of the Q&A in the pacman wiki it was no problem. Thanks for the hint anyway

swordfish · 2012-05-22 08:39:37

One question is left on this point: How can I prevent this rescue procedure in future updates that contain a new kernel, a new mkinitcpio and a new udev?

Would it be enough to run a second

# mkinitcpio -p linux

or what would you recommend for such cases?

wonder · 2012-05-22 09:05:10

is not something that you did wrong. to be sure, you can run manually after pacman finishes mkiitcpio -p linux, just to be sure.

Arch Linux

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