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KylieGS

Member

Registered: 2018-02-19

Posts: 53

Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

After an upgrade (that I did with a chroot from my recovery disk), attempting to boot into my system gives an error: cannot mount /boot

In emergency mode, I can view the log the full error is:

 mount: /boot: unknown filesystem type 'vfat' 

I get the same error if I try to do it manually

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,952

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Sounds like you didn't have the boot partition mounted when you did the update, so you're booting the old kernel that's still on that partition.

KylieGS

Member

Registered: 2018-02-19

Posts: 53

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Makes sense, I could definitely have overlooked that. How to I fix that? If I load back into the chroot, mount /boot and pacman -Syu it tells me there's "nothing to do"

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,952

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Reinstall the kernel

circleface

Member

Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Just reinstall the kernel:

pacman -S linux

paulunlmtd

Member

Registered: 2019-04-05

Posts: 1

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Just reinstall the kernel:

pacman -S linux

This worked for me.

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 22,844

Re: Unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Glad to hear, though please don't necrobump year old threads to confirm that this worked.

Closing.