Arch Linux

flippy

Member

Registered: 2018-05-22

Posts: 1

Arch won't boot after messing with virtualbox

I was trying to get Genymotion to work, so I went into the virtualbox wiki page and noticed that I had virtualbox-host-dkms rather than virtualbox-host-modules-arch. Now, whenever I boot, I get the message saying that linux-lts is loading, then some of the systemd code flashes across the screen. The screen then just goes black and nothing happens. What should I do?

I ran these commands before this happened, then rebooted:

pacman -Rdd virtualbox
pacman -R virtualbox-host-dkms
pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules-arch
pacman -S virtualbox

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,456

Re: Arch won't boot after messing with virtualbox

I get the message saying that linux-lts is loading

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … e_packages

for linux kernel choose virtualbox-host-modules-arch
for other kernels choose virtualbox-host-dkms

You will have to use dkms if you're running linux-lts.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,720

Re: Arch won't boot after messing with virtualbox

First, have you tried changing consoles?  Try CTRL-ALT-F2 and see if you get a log in prompt.   If that does not work, boot to the multi-user target rather than to the graphical target. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … ng_cmdline

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