I broke an Arch Linux installation. Let's say I made a typo in the PARTUUID string. The result is that the boot process can't mount the root file system and stops at the mkinitcpio preboot stage with the error message:
Your are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
Regression #1: mount + exec
blog.entwicklerseite.de has an example how to manually boot from rootfs
, like:
# mount /dev/sda2 /new_root/
# exec /usr/bin/switch_root /new_root /sbin/init
That brings these messages to the console output:
Trying to run as user instance, but the system has not been booted with systemd.
Trying to continue (this will most likely fail) ...
...
ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are now on your own. Good luck.
...
And a kernel panic.
Regression #2: set root + mount + exec
# root=/dev/sda2
# mount /dev/sda2 /new_root/
# exec /usr/bin/switch_root /new_root /sbin/init
No change in the output with that version.
With which commands can I continue booting (manually) from the Arch Linux emergency shell?