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#1 2010-07-05 00:33:33

pendor
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From: Tucumán - Argentina
Registered: 2008-09-24
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Ideas for recovery?[SOLVED]

Hi!
My desktop Arch went borked, probable a hardware issue that led to several freezes and a serious corruption of the filesystem (reiserfs).
After "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" from another linux (an old Gentoo, thank goodnes I kept it), I could mount the Arch partition and copy the contents of /home to another disk, but the Arch kernel panics when I try to boot it, complaining of  "VFS: unable mount root fs on unknown-block(0.0)" or a very similar message. I tried modifying grub menu file to point to fallback but to no avail, same message.
Does anybody know of an easy way of reinstalling only kernel and initrd?
Is this possible or even advisable in this case?
Maybe chrooting with an Arch LiveCD?
I don't want to reinstall everything from zero, cause my adsl connection is a little shaky right now, and downloading 1 GB + of software is not a nice prospect in this condition.
Thanx!

Last edited by pendor (2010-07-11 01:23:21)

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#2 2010-07-06 12:01:33

pendor
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From: Tucumán - Argentina
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Re: Ideas for recovery?[SOLVED]

Wrong forum to ask in?

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#3 2010-07-06 12:51:25

ralvez
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Re: Ideas for recovery?[SOLVED]

if you have an Arch Live CD your could try to use the kernel there.
Also if you have access to the files in your computer you could try to do a pacman -U kernerl-version-on_your_computer and see if that will help.

You should be able to find the files in your computer in /var/cache/pacman/pkg

Hope this helps.

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#4 2010-07-07 00:36:17

pendor
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From: Tucumán - Argentina
Registered: 2008-09-24
Posts: 130

Re: Ideas for recovery?[SOLVED]

Thanks for your kind answer!!
But  I'm beginning to see that the road ahead is the reinstalling one. Well, let's see.
Thanx anyway1

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#5 2010-07-11 01:24:51

pendor
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From: Tucumán - Argentina
Registered: 2008-09-24
Posts: 130

Re: Ideas for recovery?[SOLVED]

Reinstalled Arch. End of story, So far, great as usual.

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