On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hello, > > today I did a fresh install using the december release of the > install media. Everything done 'to the book' (the install guide > wiki page). Bootloader is syslinux. > > When booting the freshly installed system, I get the syslinux > menu, select Archlinux or fallback, things seem to be normal > for a few seconds then everything stops. After some time I get > a message that /dev/sda3 (which is the / partition) can't be > found and I'm dropped into an emergency shell. > > No LVM or RAID, just a single SATA disk with > > sda1 = /boot (100M, ext2) > sda2 = swap (2G) > sda3 = / (~250G, ext4) > > Partioning done with cfdisk. > > The mkinitcpio.conf used is the default one, which seems to > have all required hooks. > > Everything in /boot/syslinux looks ok. > > Any hints ?? > Do you see the partitions from the emergency shell, doing a `ls /dev/sd*`? Can you paste the contents of the syslinux.cfg file? -- Rodrigo
