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#1 2015-10-01 06:43:38
- mariusz84
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[Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
Hi,
After yesterday upgrade I'm not able to boot my Arch machine. Boot hangs up and I'm no even able to switch to other tty. Sometimes it hangs with only cursor on the screen, other time it hangs with ipv6 wlan interface unable to up (writing from work, don't remember exactly). Don't even know hot to get some logs.
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#2 2015-10-01 06:47:48
- jasonwryan
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot
Moving to Newbie Corner...
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#3 2015-10-01 06:59:50
- mariusz84
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
jasonwryan I know that I can check logs with chroot, but as far as I know to do this I need at least usb stick with arch. How to get usb stick without working machine? At work I am not able to do this. Is there any way to check logs or some other action that I can do from my not booting machine to help solving this issue? If I understand you correctly your propose is that I can fix my Arch machine but I need... an Arch machine.
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#4 2015-10-01 07:10:51
- Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
How to get usb stick without working machine?
I installed Arch on the machine I am posting this from by using my Samsung Galaxy SIII i9300 smartphone and the DriveDroid application.
It works perfectly and will boot you into a live environment from your phone 
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#5 2015-10-01 07:16:27
- mariusz84
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
Unfortunately I have windows phone.... Yea I know, but this is my work mobile which I use for my daily basis But even if I have droid, I am unable to use usb sticks here.
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#6 2015-10-01 07:27:36
- Head_on_a_Stick
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
Have you tried booting to rescue.target?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into
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#7 2015-10-01 08:07:07
- mariusz84
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Re: [Solved] Can't boot after upgrade, unable to view logs and switch tty
Nope. Great, thank you for that link. Will try after work. Just hope I will be able to get to terminal on that machine.
EDIT
Thank you very much Head_on_a_Stick. With your's suggestion I was able to switch into rescue mode in grub boot option, view logs and notice that the problem was with catalyst driver. I have hook enabled and usually it works perfectly, but this time it failed. I switched to open driver.
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