Using testing repos - was fully updated and all working fine. Then
picked up the latest 3.7.2-1 kernel along with kdebase 4.9.5-2/
Rebooting after this latest update fails - it cannot find the
root device and drops to "recovery shell".
ls /dev/sdb1 (the usual root device) is def missing at that point.
The recovery option does not boot either.
What I tried:
I booted 2013.01.04 arch install media - did a chroot as per the wiki -
and attempted to roll back the kernel using pacman on the 3.7.1 package
I get several errors:
warning could not get filesystem information for things like:
/run/archiso/bootmnt
/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd
/run is empty - and /sys/fs/cgroup is empty
As per the chroot wiki /sys is mounted from the install via
mount -t sysfs sys sys/
pacman continues beyond these warnings but fails with:
==> building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinux-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g
/boot/initramfs-linux.img
ERROR: invalid kernel specified: '/boot/vmlinux-linux'
same error from ;fallback'.
I am hoping I can install 3.7.1 kernel and boot again - instead of a
new install.
If anyone can offer some guidance I'd be appreciative ...
thank you
gene
