On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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. > > Everything in /boot/syslinux looks ok. > > Any hints ?? > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > Had a very similar issue to that with my rig. Fairly vanilaa x2 Athlon system with 500 gig sata drive. A power cycle resolved it. A subsequent change...adding a new sata drive...on first post install boot caused this to happen again. Power cycling the rig fixed the problem again. C