[SOLVED] Seriously, Arch? Recovery shell, USB boot won't work

So I made the mistake of updating my system without painstakingly checking the news/updates and possible error logs. I rebooted my computer this morning and:
Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done.
Booting the kernel.
:: Running Hook [resume]
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/sda3'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs /]#
This appears to be a pretty widespread problem today, as I've googled and searched the forums extensively and everyone is complaining about some udev to mkinitcpio movement or something.
I know what I need to do: either copy my files off my hard drive and reinstall, or chroot and downgrade my kernel, or chroot and reinstall udev, something like that.
Cool, so I need a liveCD. Unfortunately, my laptop lacks a CD drive (lenovo tablet). So I set out to make a USB bootable drive.
I tried it from Windows: my laptop didn't detect anything and kept kicking me back to the recovery shell. (Tried PartedMagic, Ubuntu, and Arch.)
I tried it from my school's Linux computers: Can't do *anything* without root. I tried sudo and for the first time in my life, the incident was reported and I got an email telling me not to try sudo again. Sweet.
I just tried it from my friend's Mac (the Arch x64 iso via Unetbootin): Now I get a blinking cursor when I boot from the USB.
What would you do? I'm at my wit's end here, and after using Archlinux for two years, this is giving me a MAJORLY bad taste in my mouth for the distro.
Last edited by tacostick (2012-02-15 23:33:13)

karol,
I can only change parameters from the grub menu, as far as I can tell, and I tried (hd0,{0,1,2,3,4}) and none of them worked. Only (hd0,0) gets me even as far as the recovery shell.
fsckd,
I'm using Unetbootin, which offers Core, Core_x64, Netinstall, and Netinstall_x64. Because I intend to chroot an x64 system, I tried core_x64.
willbprog127,
Yeah, you're right - sorry for being snarky. Thanks, please do let me know if you find that parameter.
I booted from the usb stick on one of my school's RHEL computers, and it says "no operating system detected". I'm...so...sad...why didn't unetbootin work...going to try to burn ubuntu again.

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