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#1 Re: Installation » Error after update- "unable to find root device" [Testing Repo] » 2012-02-14 19:15:11

felixculpa

What Archibald posted may be part of it for sure, I remember seeing that during the process. I don't know how to use pacman from the emergency shell, as I tried a few commands but didn't seem to be going anywhere.

#2 Installation » Error after update- "unable to find root device" [Testing Repo] » 2012-02-13 21:47:59

felixculpa
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Aaaargh. Ok well I did Super+U and after the update (which was rather large) I cannot boot Archbang. I get

ERROR: Unable to find root device 'STRING OF #'s AND LETTERS' .
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
        Type 'exit' to try continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#

I am typing this through my PS3 web browser since my netbook is the only computer I have. I searched the forums but I'm not exactly sure what is causing this. Only thing I remember in the update, is I went from kernal 3.2-1 ..something to 3.2-5, hard to recall now.

Edit; I have a pretty good idea now what I did... definitely my fault. I enabled "testing" repositories awhile ago and forgot about it. Obviously I downloaded some unstable packages that effectively broke my system. I don't see any escape from this by anything less than a fresh install.

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