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Hey there
I have been happily using Archlinux 0.8 for about 2 weeks (been using previous versions for about 2 years) and even managed to get fancy Beryl working without too much hassle.
However, now I am stuck with a non-functioning system. When booting it moans that it is unable to mount my home partition on /dev/hda10 and then stops at "Setting Console font UTF8"
I have used a ubuntu live cd to fsck to partitions and all seems OK. I have YareG and have looked at the logs and see this in kernel.log:
ppdev0: claim the port first
And then in everything.log:
init: open(/dev/console): No such file or directory
init: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
So I am not sure really what I have done but I assume this is the problem? Can anyone help fix it?
Last edited by robinaberdeen (2007-01-28 16:02:33)
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boot up your install cd at 1st prompt
vmlinuz root=/dev/hdXY
read this it sounds as though this is your problem
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you might try directing it to the console... file...
i've had this issue with livecds in the past..
there should be the file /dev/console
##################
take from the reiser4fs howto; you can create the console file like so:
mknod /dev/console c 5 1
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on the kernel line add:
console=console
or even console=tty1 < don't know why this worked for me, but it did, mayeb it does for you....
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OK, I managed to get back into the system and seemed to have sorted out my problems!
1) Logged in using an Ubuntu Live CD , mounted my root partition and chroot to that.
2) Checked that the LOCALE was correct and re-ran locale-gen
3) Removed a new UDEV rule I created to try and get my Aiptek tablet pointing to a fixed location eg /dev/input/aiptek
4) Removed the entry in Xorg for the new input device just to be on the safe side!
Rebooted and this seemed to solve the problem, I will try and put the udev rules etc back in place to see if the locale-gen re-generation was the problem.
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