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smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

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(SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

Last pacman -Syu successful after following glibc fix
rebooted today and I get ERROR /dev/disk/by-uuid/............not found skipping fsck
ERROR unable to find root device
then booted from a livecd snd did mkdir /mnt/arch
                                                 mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/arch  (sda3 is root, but it is being recognized as sdb3)
                                                 cd /mnt/arch
                                                 mount -t proc proc proc/
                                                 mount -t sysfs sys sys/
                                                 mount -o bind /dev dev/
                                                 chroot .      (then I get FATAL kernel too old)
I tried changing menu.lst from by uuid to sda3 and the /etc/fstab from the by uuid to sda3 for root but that will not work either.  so I tried mkinitcpio -p linux and that did not work either

turns out the livecd was too old 2009.  Made another live cd 2012.8.4 , followed the same steps and everything works.  thanks for the help

Last edited by smcsw2000 (2012-08-07 18:16:24)

hadrons123

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Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

Did you try with the recent boot image?

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

Does the problem partition show up in the output of 'blkid'?

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smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

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Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

blkid  shows all partitions and everything is as set up
I have a /root and a /boot partition if that makes a difference also went thru pacman.log and found the following
generating initial ramdisk using mkinitcpio
building image from preset default
-k/boot/vmlinuz-linux-c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot
error: invalid kernel specifier /boot/bmlinuz-linux
the same thing happened with building image from fallback

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

Sounds like your kernel is corrupt or something.  You'll have to regenerate your initramfs (after making sure your kernel is sound, of course).

Also, please put console output in

code blocks

It's much easier to read that way.

Last edited by alphaniner (2012-08-01 13:11:03)

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner

smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

Posts: 130

Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

I was able to mount /root {sdb3} and /boot {sdb1} to /mnt/arch I could find linux-3.3* and linux-3.4* in the /pacman/pkg but could not downgrade nor could I

mkinitcpio -p linux 

because I cannot chroot .   When I try chroot . I get FATAL kernel too old

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

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Re: (SOLVED) cannot boot after last upgrade

From what are you trying to chroot?

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner