Installation and boot rescue

Question

Just installed arch linux 0.7.1
Everything is smoooooth, I was able to play video, music, connect with ADSL modem and now Iam in FireFox, there are two problems however:
- I needed to install base packages only, then add everything manually, because when I select all packages - there were conflicts or errors, and each time I need to select packages from start (installed don't remember anything!)
- rescue doesn't work, even if I pass root=/dev/hda1 option it still run installation process, there is no /dev/hda1 mounted as /

Answer 1

Hope this helps... I got it right out of the Arch Installation Guide:
How do I reconfigure LILO from the rescue system?
As a first step you simply boot from the Arch Install CD or disks. If your partitions are intact and don't need checking, you should supply the root= kernel boot parameter as the instructions tell you. That will boot directly into your system, and you can skip all but the last step of actually reconfiguring and running lilo.
If you cannot boot your old root directly, boot the CD as if you were going to start an installation. Once you're in a shell, you mount the root partition of your harddisk into the /mnt directory, for example like this:
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt
Then you mount any other partitions to their respective mount points within that root of yours, for example a /boot partition:
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/boot
Now you need to mount a /dev tree in the /mnt area, where lilo will be able to find it:
# /mnt/bin/mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
Once everything is mounted, make this /mnt directory your new root with the chroot /mnt command. This will start a new shell and drop you into the /mnt directory, which will be considered your / from then on.
Now you can edit /etc/lilo.conf to your liking and run lilo to fix anything that needs fixing. Simply type exit when you want to break out of this root again, back into the original file tree. You can now reboot and test your changes.