Thanks for the help. Does anybody know if there is a way to do this without a CD because I have no way to burn one right now. Josh On Mar 19, 2012 4:53 AM, "Jayesh Badwaik" <jayesh.badwaik90@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi list,
I recently performed an update of udev and my kernel and after this I am unable to boot the normal kernel or the fallback. When I try I get this error:
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uid/03619a2f-908f-4724-ba4b-1fb3985e382b' You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
Typing exit results in me dropping to another shell and if done repeatedly a kernel panic. I attempted to boot via the grub console using the sda device block but I came up with the same error. When I look in /dev
On Sunday 18 Mar 2012 23:58:59 Josh Silard wrote: through
the recovery console that comes up the sda* blocks aren't present.
I need to know if there is a way to do this without entirely reformatting my system, I also don't have easy access to another computer but I have an android phone. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Josh
This appears to be a problem in initramfs. Do you remember configuring hooks for mkinitcpio?
Take an ArchLinux Installer CD and boot into it. Configure network using aif -p partial-configure-network. Mount your original system partitions as fgr as described.
mkdir /mnt/lx mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/lx mount -o bind /proc /mnt/lx/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/lx/dev mount -o bind /sys /mnt/lx/sys chroot /mnt/lx/ /bin/zsh grub-install /dev/sda [--recheck]
Now, edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file and make sure the followings hooks appear in the proper order.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems "
Regenerate the initramfs using the command mkinitcpio -p linux
Try booting again -- Jayesh Badwaik