[SOLVED] Disk check failed at boot.

Hello,
I've got a problem with arch booting. It looks like my cpu doesn't like being left alone fat night. I powered it on today and what I get iss disk check failed error and reboot message. I've tried fsck-ing all partitions and everything seems to be allright. What's more I can mount everything when press ctrl+z when arch tries to reboot and system loading goes on. Any tips? What should I post?
Last edited by muchzill4 (2010-02-05 10:02:48)

You have some messed up file systems. As if you didn't know.=O)
Have you changed fstab? Switched disks around? Try using uuid in fstab instead of '/dev/sdxx'.
Check this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89857
and use
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

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