stuck on boot, no SSH available

[mk01]

Oh yes, possibility of /boot being corrupted is there always.

It was discussed at other forums already but let's repeat it again.
FSCK on /boot is worth the few minutes always when one considers XBian installation as DEAD. Users tend to reflash whole SD card in case RPI doesn't boot, but in most cases ROOT fs is OK, only /boot is messed up (sometimes cmdline.txt, sometimes kernel.img, sometimes initramfs.gz).

In first case (cmdline.txt) most likely there is cmdline.txt.old or .bak. In case of initramfs.gz easiest try is just remove the line from config.txt for the revival boot. The last option - kernel.img - needs some manual fetching & extract, but IF ROOT is that much important, then lets find how to do it.

for instance by using this boot files from latest image:

Code:

http://xbian.brantje.com/images/boot.3.15.y.tar.gz