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lymphatik

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From: Somewhere else

Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 119

[Solve] Booting on kernel 2.6.32 after succesfully upgrading to 2.6.33

I upgraded succesfully to the new kernel 2.6.33

However when I restarted I was still on the kernel 2.6.32 (verifyed with uname -r).

Of course I checked if everything went smoothly with pacman and I had two success for the building of the kernel. I also tryed to rebuild the kernel with mkinitcpio everything went fine.
Except that I'm still on the kernel 2.6.32 after reboot.

And nothing is working as all my modules are for the kernel 2.6.33

Last edited by lymphatik (2010-04-11 13:53:18)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [Solve] Booting on kernel 2.6.32 after succesfully upgrading to 2.6.33

Maybe your boot partition was unmounted when you upgraded (if you have a boot partition, that is ).

lymphatik

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From: Somewhere else

Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 119

Re: [Solve] Booting on kernel 2.6.32 after succesfully upgrading to 2.6.33

Yes I have a boot partition but I do not think it was unmounted. And right now I have access to it except that I don't see the grub directory in /boot which is odd

But for the moment I am trying to do a pacman -U of an older kernel by transferring this older kernel from another computer

Well I was able to go back to kernel 2.6.32 but now I'm stuck with this old version

Last edited by lymphatik (2010-04-11 09:13:37)

Ultraman

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Registered: 2009-12-24

Posts: 242

Re: [Solve] Booting on kernel 2.6.32 after succesfully upgrading to 2.6.33

Dont "think" it's mounted, know if it's mounted (or not).
Simply check "mount" of "df" for that.

I'm betting on the fact that it was not mounted when you performed the installation of 2.6.33.
This would explain why you see a kernel in your /boot, but not grub.
Your real /boot, the separate partition will contain kernel 2.6.32 and your grub, from which you are booting now.

Clean out your "current" /boot, the one without grub stuff in there. Move the contents to ~/bootbackup/ or something similar.
Mount the partition which holds your /boot to /boot, check the contents. Make sure you have mounted the partition by checking "mount" and the grub stuff.
And when it's mounted, try reinstalling kernel26.

lymphatik

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From: Somewhere else

Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 119

Re: [Solve] Booting on kernel 2.6.32 after succesfully upgrading to 2.6.33

I forgot I made some change in fstab and forgot to add the boot partition. Well everything is back on track

Thanks you I won't assume anything next time

Last edited by lymphatik (2010-04-11 13:54:14)