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mariusl

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 4

Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Hi,

im new to archlinux. Installed it on my laptop today.

After i installed xorg and kde, i figured i had to install nvidia drivers to get my GeForce 7600go to work.
So i did and after i reboot, i get this while trying to boot:

Attempting to create root device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
unknown
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter.

Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650' doesen`t exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
Dropping to a recovery shell... type 'exit' to reboot
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo' instead

Anyone know what went wrong and is it anyway to fix this?

I dont know if i posted in the right place. Sorry if i did.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Are you sure that /dev/disk/by-uuid designations are correct in fstab and grub?  I don't think nvidia drives have anything to do with this problem, by the way.

mariusl

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Probably not nvidia drivers, but i think installing nvidia drivers, forced my kernel to get updated and thats what broke my system. Anywho how kan i check whats in fstab while in this limited "ramfs$" terminal?

u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

What is the root filesystem? And did you try the fallback image?

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Probably not nvidia drivers, but i think installing nvidia drivers, forced my kernel to get updated and thats what broke my system. Anywho how kan i check whats in fstab while in this limited "ramfs$" terminal?

That sounds more likely -- anyways, you can check the UID of partitions using "ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid" command.  Another thing to try would be to boot/chroot into the system using a live/install cd and regenerate boot images with "mkinitcpio -p kernel26".

mariusl

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

The root filesystem is ext3 atleast i think its ext3. All partitions on the pc is ext3. I honestly dont know what a root filesystem is, but if its "/" then its ext3 . I tried the fallback image, i get the same error.

quetzyg

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From: /home/quetzyg

Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 129

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Why not use /dev/[hs]d[abcde][12345] instead of /dev/disk/by-uuid/whatever-characters-come-next?

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mariusl

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Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 4

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Why not use /dev/[hs]d[abcde][12345] instead of /dev/disk/by-uuid/whatever-characters-come-next?

I tried using "root=/dev/sda3" in grub but i got the same or a very similar error.

Last edited by mariusl (2009-01-21 19:03:49)

kousi

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Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 5

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

mariusl:

You're having the same trouble others have http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57150
The solution worked in their cases, but not mine... hopefully you have better luck.

RJARRRPCGP

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From: USA (Vermont)

Registered: 2006-07-08

Posts: 23

Re: Installing nvidia driver broke my kernel

Hi,

im new to archlinux. Installed it on my laptop today.

After i installed xorg and kde, i figured i had to install nvidia drivers to get my GeForce 7600go to work.
So i did and after i reboot, i get this while trying to boot:

Attempting to create root device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
unknown
ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter.

Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650' doesen`t exist, attempting to create it
ERROR: Failed to parse block device name for '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/766625e5-5ff9-456b-a895-d0de5cfd1650'
Dropping to a recovery shell... type 'exit' to reboot
NOTE: klibc contains no 'ls' binary, use 'echo' instead

Anyone know what went wrong and is it anyway to fix this?

I dont know if i posted in the right place. Sorry if i did.

I have the same error, too! I'm glad I'm not alone! Possibly HDD corruption caused by pacman! Why would this occur unless the file system gotten corrupted! I was forced to reformat and reinstall!

I was using JFS for the file system.

Oh, BTW this is with an eVGA GeForce 7600 GS 256 MB AGP and Asus A7N8X-X.

Last edited by RJARRRPCGP (2009-02-03 06:40:09)