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beedaddy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] System hangs: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Hi all,

I somehow broke my system. It was rather stupid: I wanted to shut down KDE, but it didn't. So I thought, hey, I could update my system. But during that, the machine decided to do the shutdown (stupid me, I know).

So, when I now try to boot the machine, I get the error message: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules.After a few more messages, the system stops without being able to finish booting (see attached image).

I then booted the arch linux image from USB and tried to reinstall the kernel. But this didn't help. I would be glad if someone has an idea what I else could do.

Thanks a lot.

Last edited by beedaddy (2016-11-24 12:06:43)

user109396

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Registered: 2011-08-30

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] System hangs: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

I had a similar problem after recent update. Machine refused to boot. Output was different than yours, but I remember "Timed out waiting for device" message.

Solved by booting from live CD and downgrading device-mapper and lvm2 packages.

beedaddy

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] System hangs: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Now I solved it. I had to mount my btrfs-root with subvol=root. Otherwise mounting the boot partition into this root partition did not work. After that, reinstalling the kernel did the trick.