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robinaberdeen

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Registered: 2007-01-28

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Unable to boot Archlinux stops at "Setting Console font" [Solved]

Hey there

I have been happily using Archlinux 0.8 for about 2 weeks (been using previous versions for about 2 years) and even managed to get fancy Beryl working without too much hassle.

However, now I am stuck with a non-functioning system. When booting it moans that it is unable to mount my home partition on /dev/hda10 and then stops at "Setting Console font UTF8"

I have used a ubuntu live cd to fsck to partitions and all seems OK. I have YareG and have looked at the logs and see this in kernel.log:

ppdev0: claim the port first

And then in everything.log:

init: open(/dev/console): No such file or directory
init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

So I am not sure really what I have done but I assume this is the problem? Can anyone help fix it?

Last edited by robinaberdeen (2007-01-28 16:02:33)

rayjgu3

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Registered: 2004-07-04

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Re: Unable to boot Archlinux stops at "Setting Console font" [Solved]

boot up your install cd at 1st prompt

vmlinuz root=/dev/hdXY

read this it sounds as though this is your problem

noriko

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Registered: 2006-06-09

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Re: Unable to boot Archlinux stops at "Setting Console font" [Solved]

you might try directing it to the console... file...

i've had this issue with livecds in the past..
there should be the file /dev/console
##################
take from the reiser4fs howto; you can create the console file like so:

mknod /dev/console c 5 1

======================
on the kernel line add:
console=console
or even console=tty1 < don't know why this worked for me, but it did, mayeb it does for you....

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robinaberdeen

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Registered: 2007-01-28

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Re: Unable to boot Archlinux stops at "Setting Console font" [Solved]

OK, I managed to get back into the system and seemed to have sorted out my problems!

1) Logged in using an Ubuntu Live CD , mounted my root partition and chroot to that.
2) Checked that the LOCALE was correct and re-ran locale-gen
3) Removed a new UDEV rule I created to try and get my Aiptek tablet pointing to a fixed location eg /dev/input/aiptek
4) Removed the entry in Xorg for the new input device just to be on the safe side!

Rebooted and this seemed to solve the problem, I will try and put the udev rules etc back in place to see if the locale-gen re-generation was the problem.