Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Dany De Bontridder <dany118@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I reinstalled 2 weeks ago arch linux, because a pacman -Syu broke everything.
Today, everything works fine and I decide to keep my PC up-to-date, so I run pacman -Syu and I get a message when trying to boot
*** Kernel Panic - not syncing : No init found. *** (...) Are you sure sda is the right device? When devices are added or removed from the system (even if it's just a USB dongle!), the numbering can change. This is why specifying the device directly (instead of through UUID or LABEL) is dangerous.
Maybe the filesystem got corrupted. Chroot into your system from the install media and verify /usr/lib/systemd/systemd is present and executable.
I spent all the night on it, I've tried mkinicpio, check (ldd /sbin/init), if executable, downgrade the kernel... Without success, so I've reinstall everything and now it is working. This failure is a complete mystery for me, it is the second time it happens , finally I decide to ban the command "pacman -Syu" :-( thank you for your help Dany