Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

rhfrommn · 2006-12-26 17:23:01

Hello,

I have searched the forums and wiki for several hours and found some related topics, but none of the things I've tried so far worked.

I did a pacman -Syu on the 17th, and after that I can't boot. The system was frozen when I came back to it. I believe the pacman -Syu finished but I'm not positive. After that rebooting fails. The following lines looked like the most relevant of the error messages I can see.

EXT2-fs warning (device hda3) ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

umount: /initrd : no such file or directory

/linuxrc : 497 : /sbin/busybox not found

After that busybox message it leaves me at an ash shell prompt.

My kernel is a fairly old 2.6 (2.6.15 I believe) as I have it marked as no update in pacman.conf.

I saw forum posts and a wiki page about initrd being replaced. I tried the following

mkinitcpio -k 2.6.15 -g /boot/kernel26.img

and changed menu.lst to say kernel26.img where it used to say initrd26.img, but that didn't help any.

What should I try next, or what more information would be useful in troubleshooting this?

Thanks,
Ralph

timtux · 2006-12-26 17:56:58

Update your kernel, boot arch cd and boot into current system, then upgrade to 2.6.19, thats my suggestion

rhfrommn · 2006-12-26 19:39:16

Ok, I upgraded the kernel with

pacman -Sy kernel26

But it didn't help any. Still won't boot. The EXT2-fs error is gone but a couple other errors about /dev/hda3 took their place.

I'm trying a pacman -Syu now to see if that helps anything. I doubt it will.

Any other suggestions?

RedShift · 2006-12-26 20:58:51

try fsck'ing the disk. It may have errors.

cactus · 2006-12-26 21:03:16

you kids today, with your booting.
Back in the day, we had to insert a crank into our computers, and turn for an hour just to get grub started. uphill...both ways!

oh. try using the fallback kernel initrd.
edit grub to be
kernel26-fallback.img
instead of initrd.img
then try that

rhfrommn · 2006-12-26 21:13:41

Tried switching it to be

initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

But that still didn't help. Exactly the same errors when I booted it.

The pacman -Syu I ran about an hour ago had no effect either, as expected.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-12-26 17:23:01

Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

#2 2006-12-26 17:56:58

Re: Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

#3 2006-12-26 19:39:16

Re: Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

#4 2006-12-26 20:58:51

Re: Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

#5 2006-12-26 21:03:16

Re: Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

#6 2006-12-26 21:13:41

Re: Pacman -Syu -- now I can't boot

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