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Bliksem

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Registered: 2005-10-08

Posts: 10

Cant boot after upgrade... Ran out of input data

Uncompress Linux... 

ran out of input data 

-- System halted

Well thats what greets me after running pacman -Syu... I should have run my bootmanager (lilo) before rebooting since there was a kernel installation. How would I go about doing this now?

Boot with 0.7 cd, mount partitions, chroot /mnt, and run lilo ?

Just need some clarification, and at what point of booting off the cd do I do this? (I've never had to use my Arch cd for recovery)

Thanks In Advance...

lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: Cant boot after upgrade... Ran out of input data

Wiki has an article about it. Search for "boot" (remember we're using udev now not devfs and you should also use /dev/hda... not /dev/discs/...)

Bliksem

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Registered: 2005-10-08

Posts: 10

Re: Cant boot after upgrade... Ran out of input data

Hmm, I found the article, but its for devfs...

I know you said change to /dev/sda etc, but the cd is loading devfs when it boots, and then it wont recognise udev naming scheme...

Maybe get hold of a boot disc that uses udev?

I'm running out of ideas here...

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Re: Cant boot after upgrade... Ran out of input data

If you follow

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I_f … 7t_boot%21

you will have to use devfs names until you can get lilo running ...

just check lilo.conf is ok before running lilo

If you have devfs=nomount in lilo remove it

If thats all too much then get a live cd Archie or Knoppix & use that

HTH

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Mr Green