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Preston C.

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ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

I ran pacman -Syu and when pacman was installing the kernel, it said something about RAID then Fatal, for the kernel and the fallback.

Now when I try to boot I get all kinds of error messages after "waiting for devices to settle... done."

At one point it says "Error: root fs cannot be detected." That can't be good, .

Thanks.

[Edit]- I just noticed that before it reads "waiting for devices to settle... done.", it says

loading root filesystem module...
Attempting to create root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/9587065d-a848-47a5-b6cf-cd9b4907a1fb'
waiting for devices to settle...

Last edited by Preston C. (2009-04-13 06:33:11)

Preston C.

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Re: ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

Would this have anything to do with the problem I'm having:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68536

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Re: ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

At one point it says "Error: root fs cannot be detected." That can't be good, .

Nope, but

I ran pacman -Syu and when pacman was installing the kernel, it said something about RAID then Fatal, for the kernel and the fallback

is worse

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57205

Anyway, boot using the live CD if you have it (or the second system if you're dual-booting) then mount your system (e.g. mount the root partition to /mnt, mount /var to /mnt/var, etc) then check the pacman log (/mnt/var/log/pacman.log) to find out what happened, then fix accordingly.

Good luck.

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Preston C.

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Registered: 2009-02-14

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Re: ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

I am not dual booting and I do not have RAID enabled through the BIOS. I do have another hard drive connected though, it dual boots Fedora (why is not used anymore) and Windows.

Is there anyway to check the pacman log without using the Arch live cd- such as using the options at the boot screen? Thanks for the help.

Last edited by Preston C. (2009-04-13 18:34:43)

omgwtfbyobbq

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Re: ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

Under grub, use

cat (hd*,*)/var/log/pacman.log

Where * is whatever disk/partition your install is.

Last edited by omgwtfbyobbq (2009-04-17 00:36:17)

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Re: ran pacman -Syu, now can't boot...

Golden tip: if your initcpio generation returns FATAL, instead of rebooting: fix it. Saves you the headache from booting into a potentially broken system - like now . Really - the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

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