Arch freezes on boot, no terminal

Question

Hi, ive just installed arch with gnome as window manager. after installation i booted it up, installed some things like vlc, compiz... i also downloaded the ati driver from amd.com for my hd6850 and ran the script. it did not install properly, reported some errors.  whein i tried opening the ati manager it says something like: "driver is not properly installed".
i am using 2 screens which i consequently set up wit the display manager, both with different resolutions.
upon reboot, there was an error like "maximum number of X display failures reached". i uninstalled the ati driver from /usr/share/ati/uninstall.sh and redid the entire section starting from xorg from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … _Interface.
now the system boots gnome, but it immediately freezes upon boot.
what can i do ?
thanks

Answer 1

The wiki article on fstab briefly explains what's the deal with tmpfs, /var/lock and /var/run.
Instead of borrowing the fstab from one of your friends (where the UUID's or device names probably won't match anyway), you can create your own. And keep it simple.
Here's mine:
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
UUID=978e3e81-8048-4ae1-8a06-aa727458e8ff / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=f838b24e-3a66-4d02-86f4-a2e73e454336 /media/Storage ext4 defaults,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
UUID=14d50a6c-e083-42f2-b9c4-bc8bae38d274 /media/Backup ext4 defaults,noatime,noexec,nosuid 0 0
Once or twice a year I set "0  2" for Storage and Backup to run an fsck the next time I start the computer. Never had any fs corruption in 3 years of rock-solid, ext4 goodness.
Last edited by DSpider (2012-03-22 20:59:03)