Sorry, should have searched the list first. found the answer here:

 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/10879


Iain Sims wrote:
> Taking a look at switching from Gentoo to Arch. Sure there are many who
> have done this already.
> 
> On my Dell Latitude D610 laptop, I install fresh from the 0.7.2 CD and
> build the base image. After rebooting into my shiny new system, I'm
> prompted to upgrade pacman. Having done so I remove raidtools (pacman -R
> raidtools) and run 'pacman -Suy' again and am prompted to upgrade the
> system with ~116.1mb of packages. No problem there and shortly it
> completes. As this is now going to implement udev (and others) I need a
> reboot.
> 
> Upon reboot, I get an instant kernel pacnic "...Unable to mount root fs
> on unknown-block(0,0)"
> 
> I used to get this on Gentoo when forgetting to compile in XFS support
> to the kernel. But here I use the stock Arch Linux kernel. My partitions
> are as follows:
> 
>  /dev/sda1 - /boot (ext2)
>  /dev/sda2 - swap
>  /dev/sda3 - / (xfs)
>  /dev/sda4 - /home (xfs)
> 
> Is there no support for XFS in the latest stable release kernel?
> 
> Regs.
> 
> Iain.


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