i think i messed up.

markp1989 · 2009-03-22 13:52:17

i tried to convery my home and root partiton to ext4 as described in the wiki, and now i cannot boot. i get a message saying that the root partition cannot be found.

i cannot boot using the recovery option in grub , i get the same message.

my computer doesnt have a optical drive right now, got another one in the post. my other one was playing up, and got hit with a maglite lol

anything i can do without being able to boot from a cd. i do have ubuntu installed on a different partitoon, but i didnt add a option in grub for it.

is there anything i can do to get it up and running befoe the new cd drive arrives?

thanks markp1989

pyther · 2009-03-22 14:11:58

Did you change the entries in /etc/fstab to ext4?

You can boot the arch cd (2009.02) and mount your drives. From that point you can start to troubleshoot your problem.

EDIT: Just use the usb image

Last edited by pyther (2009-03-22 14:15:56)

japetto · 2009-03-22 14:15:01

Borrow an optical drive

Lone_Wolf · 2009-03-22 14:15:50

You can edit grub boot entries (hit 'e' in the grub boot menu) , but changing an arch bootentry to start ubuntu ...
Not sure how hard that will be.

If you happen to have a usb memorystick nearby you can put a rescue disk on that and boot from the usb stick.
Note : data on the usb stick will be overwritten by the image.

markp1989 · 2009-03-22 14:44:50

Lone_Wolf wrote:

You can edit grub boot entries (hit 'e' in the grub boot menu) , but changing an arch bootentry to start ubuntu ...
Not sure how hard that will be.
If you happen to have a usb memorystick nearby you can put a rescue disk on that and boot from the usb stick.
Note : data on the usb stick will be overwritten by the image.

i got the ubuntu partition booting ok now.

i dug thru the cupboard, and found a usb hard drive that had a ubuntu live image on it.

booted from there, and just installed grub again. i can just use the ubuntu partition till i am able to get arch up and running agin.

i will probably use this usb drive and stick the arch img to it. then install arch.

thansk for your pointers

pyther · 2009-03-22 14:48:48

You don't have to reinstall arch...

markp1989 · 2009-03-22 14:51:32

pyther wrote:

You don't have to reinstall arch...

it was a almost fresh install, less then a week old, i already have a list of packages installed packages, so i can just use that to install all of the packages in one pacman use.

i have backups of my rc.conf among other things, so its all gd

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