[SOLVED] problems trying to fix wrong UUID!

hello all,
im trying to fix a boot error (no such device: uuid...) using a solution from this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157195. i've booted to livecd but cant get past
swapon dev/sda
swapon: stat failed dev/sda: no such file or directory
Last edited by youngunix (2013-02-16 03:31:06)

youngunix wrote:
i mounted it without the /boot part, there was a separate boot partition which I copied /grub from it to /boot and deleted that partition (1GB). Then removed grub and reinstalled it
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
it rebooted to the GNU GRUB VERSION 2.0 like it should, but now I'm getting the emergency mode prompt.
If I understand you correctly, you deleted your /boot partition. That was probably a bad move. Now you may have grub's configuration in /boot, but you don't have a kernel image. Without the linux kernel also present in /boot, grub has nothing to do, hence the emergency prompt.
Reinstall the linux package, then re-install grub. Frankly, since you're going to the trouble anyways, you should just recreate your separate partition for your boot loader.
So, from the livecd:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt # (Check with fdisk -l)
rm -rf /mnt/boot/* # (You want /boot to be a mount point for a partition, so it should not contain any files)
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot # (this should be the boot partition)
pacstrap /mnt base # (This wil reinstall the kernel, as well as make sure the rest of the system is working and up to date)
arch-chroot /mnt pacman -S grub-bios # (Reinstall GRUB)
Then the rest is exactly as you already said:
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Better safe than sorry, just re-do the install process to make sure you have a working boot partition, and that the bootloader has a kernel to load. I'm assuming the rest of your system is already nice and configured properly, so after this goes off without a hitch, you can just reboot.
EDIT: Don't assume that the numbers on your disk match the ones in the example. Use fdisk, make sure you mount the right partitions to the right places.
Last edited by Kebertx (2013-02-13 23:05:42)

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