Hi,
Got a very very strange issue in this location

As a I'm selling my small laptop (Toshiba Portégé 7200 Series, workin  
great with Arch since months) to a newbie, I formated the HDD & started a  
new easy-to-use configuration of Arch on it the day before yesterday.

Now, yesterday after pacman -Syu (new kernel-2.6.16-4) + some programs  
(like kernel26beyond, initramfs, bootsplash, hibernate-script, pcmanfm),  
system got locked on boot where it prints "Arch Linux 0.6 "Widget"" &  
looks for devfs !?? (no joke, no beer, no 1st April). You can see the  
picture of that right here :
http://forums.archlinuxfr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5510#p5510

I got some badblocks on HDD when I checked it before formating, but System  
got installed & was workin very fine until yesterday evening

Here are the détails :

HDD is a 2"5 Maxtor 12Go (fsck -fv is fine but fsck -c shows some  
badblocks on hda2, Powermax missing 1 of 6 tests).

Rebooted on kernel 2.6.16-4 --> boot stops on :

> fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda2 >  
> the superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2  
> filesystem...
+ say something about "if you're sure it's a swap..." (swap is on  
/dev/hda3)

Reboot on a livecd, fsck everything --> ok,
reboot on kernel-2.6.16-4 --> same error ;

Re-livecd, I do a mkswap and in the fstab, change root line from "0 1" to  
"0 0",
reboot on kernel-2.6.16-4 --> error again, this time on partitions hda1  
and hda4 ;

Re-livecd, fsck -fccv every partitions : everything passed but 11  
badblocks on hda2. I can mount, edit / move files on mounted hda2 without  
a glinch. In fstab I changed every lines from "0 1" to "0 0" to avoid boot  
error,
reboot on kernel-2.6.16-4 --> much different. Now boots "Arch 0.6  
"Widget"" with defvs !?? Again see the pic if you're thinkin I'm kidding  
(which I could understand for sure ;) )

Chrooted into actual install from Arch-0.7.1 CD, installed  
kernel-2.6.16-3, re-installed udev, double checked rc.conf (modified to  
default by last update), fstab & grub.
Reboot --> "Arch Linux 0.6 "Wombat"" again !??

Any advice would be very appreciated as I'm lost there.

/etc/fstab:
----------------
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump>  
<pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/hda3      swap            swap     defaults                  0      0
/dev/hda2       /               ext3     defaults                  0      1
/dev/hda1      /boot           ext2     defaults                  0      1
/dev/hda4       /home           ext3     defaults                  0      1

grub/menu.lst:
----------------------
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux 'Noodle' [2.6.16]
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791
initrd /initrd26.img

# (1) Arch Linux kernel26fr-beyond
title  Arch Linux kernel26fr-beyond-TOSHIBA
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz2616-beyond-TOSHIBA root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791

-- 
Salutations,

kozaki.dev
[~] > Arch & Mandrake~iva x86_64 & Linux
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/ Linux 2.6.16-archck-Beyond \
| #1 PREEMPT Wed Apr 12 21:56:10 CEST     |
\ 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux            /
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         o   ^__^
          o  (oo)\_______
             (__)\       )\/\
                 ||----w |
                 ||     ||
Et puis Linux, c'est bien sympa, mais la personne qui pleure quand ce  
qu'il faut faire est plus compliqué que double cliquer sur une icone,  
comment elle fait ?
  > http://c.laloy.free.fr/howtos/linux/

Arch Linux - 0.7.1 "Noodle" also on :
Desktops i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) & Pentium III (Coppermine)
Laptops Dell Latitude L400 & Toshiba Portégé 7200Series.

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