USB Install

OK, so I installed Arch onto my 4gb USB Stick, as per usual procedures (I also read through the "Installing Arch Linux on a USB Key" wiki article.
The problem is that everything worked fine, then I did some updates, which seem to have broken the installation. I suspected a kernel upgrade had done it, so I followed through the guide to run mkinitcpio with the USB hook (I forgot to do it on first install, I fixed this and it worked OK) but now I'm back to not being able to boot, with mkinitcpio not fixing anything.
I have an Arch CD that I can boot from, so, any ideas?
Thanks so much in advance!

scottuss wrote:
JuseBox wrote:
scottuss wrote:
OK, so I installed Arch onto my 4gb USB Stick, as per usual procedures (I also read through the "Installing Arch Linux on a USB Key" wiki article.
The problem is that everything worked fine, then I did some updates, which seem to have broken the installation. I suspected a kernel upgrade had done it, so I followed through the guide to run mkinitcpio with the USB hook (I forgot to do it on first install, I fixed this and it worked OK) but now I'm back to not being able to boot, with mkinitcpio not fixing anything.
I have an Arch CD that I can boot from, so, any ideas?
Thanks so much in advance!
Have you tried to roll back the "updates" you installed?
No, but I'd like to run with the versions of packages I have installed now if possible. I suppose going backwards is worth a try, but I will want to update at some point!
Thanks for your reply!
The thing is if you can get it to work by rolling back then you know there is an issue with a package... Then i would install packages one by one until you find the package that broke your install.  Then you can report a bug report or try to find a fix narrowing it to one package

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