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SenorSnor

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From: Delft, Netherlands

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 48

Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

Upgraded my kernel yesterday, now my computer does not boot anymore .. I'm not in front of the computer right now but there's two errors: first, booting the kernel I get the message "kernel BUG" with an error in a scsi avansys-module (if I remember correctly). There's no scsi on that computer, I don't understand why it wants to load that anyway .. then the computer seems to hang for a while. But after a couple of minutes, it suddenly resumes, then it wants to start UDev and it says module 'capabilities' (or capability) cannot be found. And then it does hang forever.

I'm not familiar with this stuff .. I tried booting the fallback image (/boot/something-fallback.img) by pressing 'e' in the grub screen, then editing the /initrd line to load that fallback image. Then it doesn't give the first kernel bug, but still cannot find the capabilities-module.

Is there anyone that has an idea on how I can fix this? Did something go wrong with the kernel upgrade? How can I access the computer now and either try to reinstall the kernel or roll it back? Any help appreciated, I'm pretty f#cked right now

O, in case it matters: computer is an old Pentium III with IDE disks.

Last edited by SenorSnor (2008-02-14 09:03:31)

sveinemann

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Registered: 2007-09-30

Posts: 108

Re: Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

You can always boot trough the disk, just follow the directions when the install disks loads. It tells you how to boot an exicting system with the kernel from the disk. And then, you could probably find the old kernel in the /var/cach/pacman/pkg (something like that) and install that one.

I think that could work.

SenorSnor

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From: Delft, Netherlands

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 48

Re: Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

Thanks, I'll try with the disk tonight. If I find the kernel in /var/cache/pacman/pkg orso, can I just extract that and put everything in the right place?

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,221

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Re: Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

Thanks, I'll try with the disk tonight. If I find the kernel in /var/cache/pacman/pkg orso, can I just extract that and put everything in the right place?

You don't have to extract anything. Just a 'pacman -U <pkgname>' will suffise.

Zl.

SenorSnor

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From: Delft, Netherlands

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 48

Re: Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

Thanks guys! Running on an old kernel from my installation cd atm .. keep getting that "kernel BUG" message in the linked-in avansys-module, then after that "module capability not found" when I use 2.6.24. I'll try to look into it, but at least I'm operational again .. whew!!!!

kiloecho7

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 25

Re: Cannot boot after upgrade to 2.6.24.1-2

Hey, I had the same error about "FATAL: module capability not found", and the solution for me was to remove the reference to a module called capability in /etc/rc.conf with a live boot cd.  Maybe this link will be of assistance.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=331319

Hope that helps.  Please post back if it does.