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GriFF3nG

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Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 18

Roll back kernel help

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to roll back the kernel on my first install because after upgrading my "dhcp" does not work. I've read that this has been happening to a lot of people and they said that rolling back the kernel fixes their problems. So i followed the wiki; http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics , and im getting the error that the file is not there. I'm booting ArchLive off of a USB. The root sda1, and the USB ArchLive is sdb1. If i mount sda1 then get to

# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26-2.6.23.xx-x.pkg.tar.gz

i use this instead;

/media/disk1/addons/core-pkgs/kernel26-2.6.25.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

because that is where it is when i locate the file in my Ubuntu installed partition. I tried using 'ls' to find the file but im not able to. Any ideas?

GriFF

Last edited by GriFF3nG (2008-11-07 04:09:47)

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Roll back kernel help

Which kernel version did you upgrade from/to?

/var/cache/pacman/pkg contains all the packages you have downloaded and installed either from your installation or from your last execution of `pacman -Scc'. So if you don't have a kernel26-2.6.23.xx-x.pkg.tar.gz (where the xx-x is additional kernel/package version information) then you will be unable to install that version.

If you do an ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel26* it will tell you which versions of the kernel you have available to you, so use pacman -U on the last version before you had problems.

If you do not have the version you want, drop me a line and chances are I will have the package you are after.

GriFF3nG

Member

Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 18

Re: Roll back kernel help

Got it working. Was putting in the wrong kernel number. Stupid mistake. Thanks SiC.

GriFF