2012/6/13 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:42:01 -0700 > pants wrote: > > > check the SMART status of the drives, > > I've recently found Pmagic livecd to be very cool for this. Simply > click the disk health icon on the desktop. > Folks I've messed things even more I did a kernel downgrade, downloaded kernel 3.3.7 from arch time machine and did pacman -U kernel26-2.6.39.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz System rebuilt modules and so on. After reboot it seems to report my /boot is not a valid partition type with ext2fs. Still grub which is installed there works and I can boot my windows. My plan now is download a live cd do a chroot to my old arch and try to update the kernel for the old state is it manageable?