After Upgrade system hangs after Probing EDD ok (syslinux) [SOLVED]

franzem · 2017-05-28 06:56:14

Hi,

Been using Arch Linux for many years but confounded by this one:

Did a normal upgrade yesterday, all seemed to be fine but when I rebooted my system got stuck after the Probing EDD stage. The Probe EDD is ok, but next step doesn't happen.

I can boot with a live USB, arch-chroot, etc. Recreating the ramdisk with mkinitcpio makes no difference.

I'm using syslinux so it might be something there, although I checked the version and I don't think syslinux has been updated for a while.

Any ideas on where I could start looking to sort this out?

Thanks,
Michael

Last edited by franzem (2017-05-28 07:50:35)

jasonwryan · 2017-05-28 07:00:49

What is in the journal for the failed boot? What was upgraded (the kernel)?

franzem · 2017-05-28 07:35:56

Hi Jason, thanks for your help;

Kernel was upgraded, now on 4.11.2-1

Looking at journalctl for the last boot makes no sense, a whole lot of umount of /mnt entries ... But no kernel entries...

Should I try reinstalling previous kernel?

jasonwryan · 2017-05-28 07:36:57

There have been quite a few threads about 4.11.2 - try downgrading or running -lts.

franzem · 2017-05-28 07:43:25

Awesome, that did it, at least able to boot and I'll be able to sort things out from there.

I'll hold off on kernel upgraded for a while...

Thanks for your help!

jasonwryan · 2017-05-28 07:48:37

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After Upgrade system hangs after Probing EDD ok (syslinux) [SOLVED]

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Re: After Upgrade system hangs after Probing EDD ok (syslinux) [SOLVED]

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