Arch broken

vificunero · 2005-01-25 15:27:33

Hi. I can't boot my Arch Linux. I've used this morning without problems and I have done a pacmany -Syu that has updated bluefish and dbus. Now I can't boot it: after lilo it's just a blank screen. I don't know what could have damaged my box. Any help?
Thank's.

timmy · 2005-01-25 17:18:02

Well if it happens over and over again, I think the best possibility, would be to boot on a live CD mount the harddrive, and run lilo again, to get lilo correctly install, if there is any errors, fix them!

kth5 · 2005-01-25 18:00:35

timmy wrote:

Well if it happens over and over again, I think the best possibility, would be to boot on a live CD mount the harddrive, and run lilo again, to get lilo correctly install, if there is any errors, fix them!

for quite some in the past i told myself, why switch to grub when the good old lilo works just as well? that has changed, ever since i've switched to grub i always can get my machine to boot unless i explicitly dd-over my mbr. :twisted:

i would recommend to switch to grub and if something like that ever happens again, use its console to see what exactly is wrong or boot using an alternative append-line etc.. maybe you just replaced your kernel by mistake? np, for grub. hehe

sarah31 · 2005-01-25 19:02:34

sounds like you will have to try and perform a resue with some sort of disc.....either your install or a livecd

ylikone · 2005-01-26 23:38:59

Hmmmm... this actually happened to me with grub last week. I did a pacman -Syu and rebooted only to have it hang right after the grub menu (basically, upon trying to start loading the kernel I guess). So I used knoppix to go edit my grub config file... just added an option to boot to my backup kernel image. Then I restarted and magically it just starting working again... even with the normal kernel file. I don't know what caused it... and it has me a bit worried. Oh well, that's what knoppix is for.

shadowhand · 2005-01-27 21:43:29

Grub is great when a kernel screws up. You can either use the command line to boot it manually and fix it, or you can use a live CD. No worries about having to run Lilo.

Sounds like a kernel issue for sure though mate. Might want to run that Arch install CD and boot into your existing partition.

kth5 · 2005-01-28 00:41:18

shadowhand wrote:

Sounds like a kernel issue for sure though mate. Might want to run that Arch install CD and boot into your existing partition.

it's not necessarily a kernel problem. might as well have been a grub update which modified the 2ndstage file and one would have to run grub-install again.
rarely ever happens tho.

vificunero · 2005-01-31 12:24:23

Thank's for all your suggestions. I've fixed my lilo with live-cd. Everything works now. Maybe I've done something stranger I don't remember.
Thank's.

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