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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

[Solved] PC won't boot any longer...

I updated last night and since I got a new kernel (3.3.2-1), I decided to boot... But it won't boot anymore... It gets to the point where the boot menu should appear and then just stops... No error messages or anything else, just hangs there...
I am using Syslinux as boot manager and BIOS for disk access... Does anyone know of any reason this has happend?

Regards,

BTJ

Last edited by bjorntj (2012-04-18 21:50:11)

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magicalChicken

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Registered: 2012-03-03

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Re: [Solved] PC won't boot any longer...

Was anything other than the kernel upgraded, because a new kernel would not have broken syslinux. I think that something changed, either in the syslinux config file or in an upgrade to syslinux or something. If you cannot get the system to boot then maybe try booting from a flash drive and chrooting into the arch system, then reinstalling syslinux.

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bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Re: [Solved] PC won't boot any longer...

Nope, nothing else related to the boot... Yes, I thought about trying to install syslinux again as the next step, just had to backup my pc first, just in case... (of course this happend at the same time as I have deleted my NAS because I am changing my harddisks in my NAS.... :-|)
I just thought I should check if it was only me or not first...  I will try different thing tonight to get my PC booting again....

BTJ

Last edited by bjorntj (2012-04-18 13:10:56)

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"

bjorntj

Member

Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Re: [Solved] PC won't boot any longer...

OK, was the BIOS's fault... It somehow suddenly had changed the boot order of my two harddisks.... :-|

BTJ

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"