Error parsing root device at boot

dtw · 2008-05-02 13:58:34

Hello everyone

I did a foolish thing and ran a selective upgrade on my Arch box after about 9 months. It broke. I'm getting a kernel panic right at the get go. Initially I thought it might be a device naming issue so i set up persistent naming according to the wiki. Alas that has not helped.

I'm not so much asking for help but rather support. I plan to get in with a live-cd, check the pacman log, and either revert the kernel or install what ever I missed. At least I will know what happened though. I might have skipped udev, I fear.

Obviously I'm a bit rusty so any other pointers much appreciated.

iphitus · 2008-05-02 14:16:55

How early was the error/what boot stage (bootloader, early kernel, initcpio, udev, initscripts), what's shown on the ten lines before?

dtw · 2008-05-02 14:31:39

I reckon it's in the initramfs stage. Certainly seems to be before INIT runs, at least as far as I can tell.

keratos · 2008-05-02 20:16:37

how about posting the error message.

write it down! +/- 10 lines or so

provide more information!

tomk · 2008-05-02 21:08:53

Can you boot with the fallback init image?

dtw · 2008-05-04 10:14:47

ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/blah'
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected

And no on the fallback image. I updated some pkgs that might have been required but i didn't rebuild the init images, i think that'd be a good idea.

dtw · 2008-05-04 10:41:25

That worked. I'm in but stuff is busted all over >< fun fun! Thanks chaps.

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Error parsing root device at boot

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