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suggy

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 15

Can't mount boot, upgraded kernel with boot unmounted now I can't boot

ok here's the deal! I noticed a while ago that arch leaves the boot partition mounted all the time by default so I just chaged the entry in fstab to noauto! did a full upgrade today which included the new kernel and now I can't boot! simple enuff to sort I thought!i'll just mount boot and then reinstall the kernel! but now I can't mount ext2 filesystems! which my /boot just happens to be! help! sorry for the disgraceful post i'm posting from my phone! i'm guessing btw that i'm gonna have to chroot? but I have no idea how to do this I can look that up but is there an easier way?

Last edited by suggy (2008-08-13 13:41:31)

pheon

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 91

Re: Can't mount boot, upgraded kernel with boot unmounted now I can't boot

Hi,
chroot is afaik the most elegant way to get that fixed.

Boot the system with a livecd
mount root-partition /mnt
rm -r /mnt/boot/* 
mount boot-partition /mnt/boot
chroot /mnt /bin/bash
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel....tar.gz

Good luck and best regards

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suggy

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 15

Re: Can't mount boot, upgraded kernel with boot unmounted now I can't boot

Thanks very much i've sorted following your advice! Got another problem now tho, don't know if it's related! Hibernate just doesn't work. The screen goes blank then i'm prompted for my password like the screen had just been locked! Any ideas? Bug in the new kernel?

.:EDIT:.

I've sorted it, when i did the chroot i managed to wipe /boot forgot to add resume=/dev/sda2 to the grub menu when i reinstalled it:lol: Oh well onwards and upwards

Last edited by suggy (2008-08-13 13:40:40)