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subatomic

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Registered: 2005-06-26

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how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

trying to get my system back up as this has also happened to me after a -Syu
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93107

In my case I get

mounting ' ' failed
No such device Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, piss off.

or similar, and yes, the device is listed as ' '

It does not help typing anything into the boot loader (grub2)
Lots of things not found and then it just stops trying to load and I have no shell

Now I've got linux-3.1.1 but something is screwed up. I'd like to go back to 3.0
but have too many dependancies on >3.1

Anyway, I tried chrooting into my system with the latest Live CD.
I followed the chroot Wiki but can't get pacman to connect.

Shouldn't there be more to get my network up?

Of course any other suggestions to get the system running again are appreciated.

Last edited by subatomic (2011-11-27 20:36:08)

addy

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

What issue are you facing with pacman?

subatomic

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

what up?

ngoonee

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

what up?

That's not helpful at all, and you need to provide more details if you're expecting to get any sort of help.

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subatomic

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

The question is:

How do I get connected to the Arch servers to upgrade packages after having booted and chrooted into my system from the Arch live CD???

This is all I'm asking here. The wiki says to copy resolv.conf but this is apparently insufficient.

fsckd

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

How did you set up chroot?

FYI, you don't need to chroot to use pacman with a not root filesystem.

-r, --root <path>
Specify an alternative installation root (default is /). This should not be used as a way to install software into /usr/local instead of /usr. This option is used if you want to install a package on a temporary mounted partition that is "owned" by another system.  NOTE: if database path or logfile are not specified on either the command line or in pacman.conf(5), their default location will be inside this root path.

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subatomic

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-06-26

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Re: how do I get a network connection with an Arch rescue CD? [solved]

dhcpcd eth0

Found it first.
Why isn't this documented anywhere?

The pacman -r tip helped me out immensly, thanks fsckd.