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fivre

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 99

What do I need to do after my first pacman -Syu

(After installing from CD)

Running pacman -Syu prints some important messages while running--like 'do this or you'll get a kernel panic after reboot' and then scrolls them off the screen to make room for other messages but conveniently doesn't log them anywhere. (By the way, it would be a good idea TO log them somewhere, in my opinion.)

So, now that I have that kernel panic, does anyone know what all I was supposed to do after updating?

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: What do I need to do after my first pacman -Syu

Few things, which ISO did you install from, the new 0.8 Voodoo?  Also, note that you can always press Shift-PageUp to view console messages that have already scrolled by.  With the new version of pacman (now in testing) all of those messages are logged, and eventually there should be a cleaner implementation of those logs since it has been a long-time complaint of users.

Without knowing which ISO you used, by first guess would be that you need to update the initrd line in your grub menu.lst config file to be "kernel26.img".  If that's not it, give us more info and we'll see what we can do.