On 03/18/10 at 02:17am, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > I just attempted an update which installed kernel26 2.6.32.10-1 on my x86_64 > box. After the update, the box failed to boot and the boot process stopped at > the initrd/initramfs. (I have the slash because I can't remember the exact > init----) But it was very early in the boot process. I have checked logs and > nothing for this boot attempt was written to the logs. I suspect it was too > early in the boot process for logging to be enabled. > > I have never tried to recover from a failed arch boot before. What's the proper > way. Boot with the install cd and chroot your install and either downgrade to > the last kernel or try mkinitcpio again? > You should be able to boot from the fallback image. I had this issue once, and the error message was "can't find root filesystem in 30 seconds"; what I did for recovering was: reboot from fallback image add to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="ext4" mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img reboot from the new image since I heard that new kernel had worse performance for ext4 than the previous one, and my / was ext4. You should also read the mkinitcpio wiki page for more info.