artix fails to boot following system upgrade

Today at 04:41:49

I have been running artix for a few years. Never had any trouble with it. Yesterday, I did a system upgrade, "pacman -Syu". Now artix won't boot. It can't mount the root file system. It performs a jsck.jfs and the response is "Filesystem is clean." But, it can't mount the filesystem.

I tried booting my system with SystemRescue and did an fsck from there. It also said the the filesystem was clean. While still in SystemRescue I was able to mount the /dev/md126p5 partition (my root partition) and access files on it.

It appears that either the new kernel or the new initramfs that was created by the upgrade process is bad. I am using the OpenRC init system, but I don't think that matters at this point because the boot process doesn't get that far.

I haven't changed anything with my system hardware for a long time.

How do I get myself out of this jam?

I am attaching a log file with the boot messages I am seeing.

Re: artix fails to boot following system upgrade

Reply #1 – Today at 06:34:53

Something with mkinitcpio must've changed, check if you have /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew or post /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. You should also post /etc/fstab.