Wrong kernel loaded?

Hello
I am currently in the process of installing arch and i had a networking problem i had no interfaces so i came across some thread which said that if that happens u might be loading the wrong kernel
so i ran
uname -a
: Linux 3.17.3
and also pacman -Qi linux
:linux 3.17.4
and then i looked more on that issue and i came across this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181536
in which someone said you might not be mounted to boot so i tried mount /dev/sda2(this is the boot partition) /boot and i got in return error
unknown filesystem type 'vfat'
the thing is that i made it fat according to this tutorial http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1860 … -uefi.html of installing arch on a uefi motherboard and also according to this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … _Partition
i just wanna state that during the installation process i dont remember any problems mounting the partition
what do i do to fix this problems?
thanks a lot

What is the output of mount
Also, please post your /etc/fstab file.
and what is the output of ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
Here are mine (for an example of what I would like to see[
ewaller@odin ~ 1023 %mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1973548k,nr_inodes=493387,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda8 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=23,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda9 on /mnt/smalldisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda2 on /mnt/disk type jfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=395332k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=100)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
ewaller@odin ~ 1024 %cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=1e70da27-41c7-43fc-963b-81bae666b1c6 /home ext4 defaults,user_xattr 0 1
UUID=73796934-070f-4e79-a973-229432222e58 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=9c1fd3af-fd51-4bc5-9b43-d5ae12b47df1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=d4a4aafc-3dcd-4b32-974e-f3b2cb124c64 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/disk/ jfs defaults 0 1
/dev/sda9 /mnt/smalldisk vfat defaults,users 0 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win7 ntfs defaults,users,noauto 0 1
ewaller@odin ~ 1025 %ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 1e70da27-41c7-43fc-963b-81bae666b1c6 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 2DA2DBF1421DA541 -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 50e26992-25e2-41c0-9782-88430faaa261 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 567A-7203 -> ../../sda9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 73796934-070f-4e79-a973-229432222e58 -> ../../sda8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 9c1fd3af-fd51-4bc5-9b43-d5ae12b47df1 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 24 20:07 d4a4aafc-3dcd-4b32-974e-f3b2cb124c64 -> ../../sda6
ewaller@odin ~ 1026 %

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