> It reports a problem > reading /boot partition saying something about it being not a valid ext2 I see /boot is ext4 There was a time recently when a kernel bug gave invalid warnings about other filesystem types like ext2, ext3 before mounting ext4 so it could be a red herring, is the exact error gone too quick to note. I presume by Vanilla you mean an arch package? p.s. If you can edit the kernel commandline you can change the init part to init=/bin/sh and hitting b to boot It's limited in what can be done but that way you may be able to troubleshoot some things more quickly by using the built in kernel commands, see if there is a reboot command. If there is it is internal and not from any filesystem. If it works you could then do it again and this time mount your root filesystem and try the reboot command from that. There are also kernel debug configs like printk but I'm not sure that's the route to go down yet. ________________________________________________________ Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. ________________________________________________________
