[arch-general] linux-3.14.3-1 and FAT32 /boot partition mount fail

[David Moore]

----- Original Message -----
> Hello,
> 
> After Linux kernel update my system can't boot properly because of
> this
> error:
> > [FAILED] Failed to mount /boot
> 
> Although it gives me opportunity to login as root.
> When I try to mount it manually:
> > mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'
> 
> Kernel downgrade to 3.14.2-1 resolved this. So, did I miss something
> or
> it's a bug?
> I have to use FAT32 for /boot because I have that UEFI thing.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> 

Hi,

I had this exact issue - I thought I had done something wrong.  I booted into a live distro, chrooted to my root partition, mounted all the normal partitions, reinstalled the latest kernel package and it all started working again.  I still have no idea what went wrong - the initrd image as originally built did not recognize vfat or xfs, but did recognize btrfs, and that was true for the fallback image as well.

regards,

-- 
David Moore
Senior Software Engineer
St. James Software
Email: davidm at sjsoft.com