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Gerenuk81

Member

Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 14

How to correctly update the kernel package? (SATA drive problem)

I updated a package that also wanted to update the kernel to the most current.

What are the steps required after the update with "pacman -S kernel26"?

The problem that I have now is that there is a problem with my SATA drive. When booting I get now:

Running Hook [filesystems]
Failed to parse block devices name for '/dev/sda2'
unknown
root fs cannot be detected

What are the files vmlinuz26 and kernel.img for and what does mkinitcpio do? What else is required to set up for the boot process?

rayjgu3

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From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 692

Re: How to correctly update the kernel package? (SATA drive problem)

you probably need to complete the update of system
follow directions here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics
but instead of rolling back kernel run pacman -Syu for full system upgrade