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vietpham

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 3

Unable to boot after upgrade to kernel 4.18.4

Hi,

I am unable to boot after upgrading my system to kernel 4.18.4. I was using kernel 4.17.12 before the upgrade.

When archlinux try to boot, it only show the message "starting version 239" and never get to the message where it mount the root disk.
Luckily, I am able to boot normally using the fallback initramfs. Here is my mkinitcpio.conf:

$ grep -v '^#' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf  
MODULES=()

BINARIES=()

FILES=()

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)

I am using a 10-year-old Dell Latitude E6500 laptop.

What may be the cause of this problem? Could you guys help me please?

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to kernel 4.18.4

What is the journal for the failed session?

Moving to NC...

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,681

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to kernel 4.18.4

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=239672

vietpham

Member

Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 3

Re: Unable to boot after upgrade to kernel 4.18.4

Thank you! This one looks very similar to my problem.

By the way, I try to reboot to the problematic kernel, and reboot again to the fallback one. These commands below only show the successful boots:

journalctl --boot=0
journalctl --boot=-1
journalctl --boot=-2