Root filesystem errors, Arch mounts it as RO, unusable system

Question

I dunno why, but since a little why Arch stopped working because it just stops the initscripts where it checks for filesystems.
I'm getting at the beginning of initscripts this:
"Using static /dev filesystem"
Then it goes into maintenance mode after the Filesystem Check, asking for my root password, with the root filesystem mounted read-only, then it asks me to fsck it and change the superblock, however I can't do this because /dev/sda1 (my root FS) doesn't exists.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

1. when you start it will say filesystem check error and ask if you want to fix it type in your root password and press enter
2. type mount -o -n remount,rw / and press enter
3. type pacman -S initscripts and press enter
4. type cp /etc/rc.local.shutdown.pacsave /etc/rc.local.shutdown press enter
5. type cp /etc/rc.local.pacsave /etc/rc.local press enter
6. type cp /etc/rc.conf.pacsave /etc/rc.conf press enter
7. type cp /etc/inittab.pacsave /etc/inittab
8. type reboot and press enter and you should be able to boot into your filesystem
if you pacman tells you that it cant find initscripts then download the package from here:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686 … pkg.tar.gz
and put it on a usb drive and mount it from inside another linux for example a ubuntu live cd
then mount your arch root aswell and copy the initscripts-2008.02-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz to mountpoint/root/
then go back and go from step 3 but with pacman -U initscripts-2008.02-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Last edited by INCSlayer (2008-03-01 07:25:15)