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waynew

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Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 37

After upgrade system no longer boots, and (apparently) no USB

So I've got Arch installed on my mom's computer. Apparently she did an update and now this: http://imgur.com/AQBZLQV

ERROR: Unable to find root device 'PARTUUID<stuff>'

It drops to a shell, but the shell doesn't work. Possibly because it's a USB keyboard? The keyboard works in the BIOS just fine, but when it hits that screen - nada.

Of course, she's not *that* savvy, so I don't think she paid any attention to what exactly was updating. So far the only information I've got from her is that she updated, restarted, and death.

I'm assuming it'd be possible to get back in there and rescue it with a disk - maybe grub got pooched? I actually had similar problems when I initially set up the machine and forgot some steps...

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: After upgrade system no longer boots, and (apparently) no USB

I suggest you fire up a chroot environment to allow you to get into your Arch installation and fix it.

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jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: After upgrade system no longer boots, and (apparently) no USB

Not a Pacman issue, moving to NC...

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ninjaaron

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Registered: 2010-12-10

Posts: 296

Re: After upgrade system no longer boots, and (apparently) no USB

hey bro, I had to change my hooks in mkinitcpio.conf. Might be a different problem. might be related.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189090

Last edited by ninjaaron (2014-10-29 19:08:32)