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_will

Member

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 123

[solved][kernel 2.6.16.14-1] don't even see error messages

right before relocating with my laptop i thought it'd be a good idea to do one last update. I updated to kernel 26.16.14-1 (the one the mainpage says to avoid) and turned of the computer. Now when it starts up, i see no errors. it just goes from grub to black and then to the ibm thinkpad turn on screen thing. 

so now in knoppix i explictly mount root

mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 -o rw

after trying to update and seeing all the /dev/null permission dienied errors
and chroot into /mnt/hda3, for good messure su into root, and update to the fixed kernel

chroot /mnt/hda3
su root
pacman -Syu

all seems to go well so  i reboot. No luck.

i repeat the same, but instead revert to the last kernel i had working

pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.16.12-1.pkg.tar.gz

reboot.
still i don't see any text, just grub->black->start up screen
the little green light seems to show the computer was trying for the few seconds of nothing but black.

did anyone recover from updating to this kernel?
(did i miss a post somewhere about how to recover from a bad kernel?)

thanks

will

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: [solved][kernel 2.6.16.14-1] don't even see error messages

theres a new kernel26 2.6.16.14-2
it works fine on my laptop the kernel26 2.6.16.14-1 did not
dell inspiron 5150
chroot into arch run pacman -Syu
get new kernel along with udev

_will

Member

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 123

Re: [solved][kernel 2.6.16.14-1] don't even see error messages

yeah tried that again.. still black screen
could i have broken something else that would cause no warnings or errors before reboot

thanks again
will

edit
the problem was how i tried to update/revert the kernel.
pacman  placed the kernel files in /boot on /dev/hda3, however /boot is a mount point for the other partition(hda1). To fix this, i need to mount both partitions and move files from /boot on hda3 to hda1