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surrealistic

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Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 102

Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Hi, I have a PC with one HDD and one SSD I have a Windows 10 partition and an Arch Linux partition in each one (both are divide with a Windows partition and a Linux partition). Since a month more or less I'm having a problem with my Arch Linux partition in the HDD, when I try to use that partition appears this message:

[3.676259] systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.
Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):

I was searching that error in Google and I was trying some possible solutions I saw unsuccesfully. When that message is appears the system freezes and I can't type anything so I was trying some things following some possible solutions in the forum with arch-chroot from the SSD Arch Linux partition, but I couldn't see systemd or journalctl (obviously) and everything I tried didn't work so I come here to ask for any help whether someone know what I can to do or at least help me because I'm traying to fix it without reinstall that partition (but if there's no a different way I'll have to format, but I'm trying to fix it first).

Thank you very much!!

Starfish

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-10-21

Posts: 134

Re: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Post the full output of

dmesg
lsmod

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surrealistic

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Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 102

Re: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

I tryied it but I can't get the right output because I am trying to do it in a chroot environment and I get the output from the partition that is working right.

Last edited by surrealistic (2016-09-13 15:10:59)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,772

Re: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

How did you get those output if the system will not boot?  Or does it boot?
What are the output of uname -a and of pacman -Qi linux  ?

Edit:  We were posting at the same time.
I am guessing that the kernel being picked up by the boot loader is not the same kernel you have installed.
In your chroot environment, is the boot partition mounted?  If so, then reinstall the linux package.
Can you post your /etc/fstab ?

Last edited by ewaller (2016-09-13 15:11:36)

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surrealistic

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Registered: 2011-07-24

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Re: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

my /etc/fstab content (from the partition that's failling):

# /dev/sda5
UUID=18a48ce5-19ba-46c1-8745-7a3dc79fc1e8	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# /dev/sda2
UUID=3661-2A8D      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro	0 2

I'm going to try to reinstall the linux package with the chroot session and reboot to the other partition to check it.

EDIT:

I just try it and still failling.

Last edited by surrealistic (2016-09-13 15:21:58)