On Sunday 18 Mar 2012 23:58:59 Josh Silard wrote: > Hi list, > > I recently performed an update of udev and my kernel and after this I am > unable to boot the normal kernel or the fallback. When I try I get this > error: > > ERROR: Unable to find root device > '/dev/disk/by-uid/03619a2f-908f-4724-ba4b-1fb3985e382b' > You are being dropped to a recovery shell > Type 'exit' to try and continue booting > sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > Typing exit results in me dropping to another shell and if done repeatedly > a kernel panic. I attempted to boot via the grub console using the sda > device block but I came up with the same error. When I look in /dev through > the recovery console that comes up the sda* blocks aren't present. > > I need to know if there is a way to do this without entirely reformatting > my system, I also don't have easy access to another computer but I have an > android phone. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > > Josh This appears to be a problem in initramfs. Do you remember configuring hooks for mkinitcpio? Take an ArchLinux Installer CD and boot into it. Configure network using aif -p partial-configure-network. Mount your original system partitions as fgr as described. mkdir /mnt/lx mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/lx mount -o bind /proc /mnt/lx/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/lx/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/lx/sys chroot /mnt/lx/ /bin/zsh grub-install /dev/sda [--recheck] Now, edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file and make sure the followings hooks appear in the proper order. HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems " Regenerate the initramfs using the command mkinitcpio -p linux Try booting again -- Jayesh Badwaik
