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#1 2012-03-09 19:54:53
- HM
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Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Troubles on my laptop:
This morning after brushing my teeth I went on with another routine: I pacman -Syu both my Desktop and Laptop (laptop through 'pacserve --multicast'). Both are x86_64.
However things went wrong with the kernel-upgrade on my laptop:
Building of the default and fallback image gave this error:
==> ERROR: invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux'
(I typed the messages from my Laptop screen).
So I checked previous forum-posts and the wiki: managed for the first time to 'chroot' (very good wiki page!) and I was back in my system. However trying to downgrade the kernel with 'pacman -U' from the /var/cache/pacman/pkg gave unfortunately the same error as mentioned above.
I am stuck. Don't like to go a complete re-install for my laptop (many AUR packages etc...). Somebody with a bright - or any - idea as long as it reanimates my Arch install of my laptop...
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#2 2012-03-09 22:41:29
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Once you've chrooted in, try the following:
# pacman -S linux
# pacman -S mkinitcpio
# mkinicpio -p linuxAfterwards, reboot and see what the result is.
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#3 2012-03-10 06:33:59
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Thx Gcool but it's throwing the same error:
==> ERROR invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after
pacman -S linux as well as after
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#4 2012-03-10 07:44:51
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Do you have /boot on another partition and / or are you making sure it is mounted?
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#5 2012-03-10 09:12:51
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Yeah /boot is on another partition and in 'chrooted' environment I have mounted it. The same for /var that is also mounted to have access to '/var/cache'.
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#6 2012-03-10 10:04:01
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
When you're chrooted in; is your boot partition actually mounted in /boot (and not /mnt/boot or so)?
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#7 2012-03-10 10:23:08
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Re: Invalid kernel specifier: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' after upgrade
Again a yes. I first mounted the various partition and then I 'chroot' from within the /mnt/arch directory with chroot . /bin/bash. Exactly like it's written in the wiki.
That part looks ok , since after an
cd /
ls I see exactly the root directories from my laptop install.
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