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gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

It sounds like there's a conspiracy!

@dakor:

You don't have exactly the same in menu.lst, do you? Please post your info (which drives where, which partitions, contents of men.lst, ...).

@go4it:

It sounds like you might have a bit of a mess there ...
My suggestion would be to do a complete new install. First save any important data, then determine which drives (hd/cd) are on which controllers, and if they are not 'standard' without good reason, move them (apart from anything else it might make it easier for people to help you). Normally hda (primary controller, master) is a hard disk, cd on hdb or secondary controller.
Be careful with those little master/slave links if you move any drives around. If you don't know what you're doing, ask a friend or maybe rather don't touch it.

Are there any other OSs on the machine? (they may not like being moved around)

Decide how to install - the wiki lists several methods. If there is another linux installed on the machine, it may be easier to install using one of these (assuming you have an internet connection on the machine):
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qui … stallation
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … her_distro

or from a live CD using one of the above methods.

If you use a 'standard' install CD, use one from here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=25236

The 'official' install CDs seem to give problems quite often.

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dakor

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Registered: 2004-03-19

Posts: 107

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

haha I feel dumb!

I had

initrd /boot/kernel.img

instead of..

initrd /boot/kernel26.img

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go4it

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Registered: 2006-10-03

Posts: 44

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

I swapped the IDE connections already and I will do  fresh installation.
Many thanks to all !

Convergence

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Registered: 2005-07-02

Posts: 377

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

I have the same problem, I did a re-install with the latest ISO, and it did no good.

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aris002

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-03-21

Posts: 75

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

I have the same problem, I did a re-install with the latest ISO, and it did no good.

I think, I've had the same kind of problems... Solution? This worked for me:
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Step 1:
Booot into a spare installation on a different partition. (Or, I guess, this should work with any Live CD)
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Step 2:
chroot  into your damaged instalation this way:
(change hda2 below to where you have your damaged instalation!)

#mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
#mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
#mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
#mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
#chroot /mnt /bin/bash

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Step 3:
Edit (your favourite way) the main culprit, which,( I guess ), is /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and the line:
MODULES=""
which I changed to:
MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
(or you might need ext3 instead of reiserfs)
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Step 4:

#mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img -k 2.6.18-ARCH

(or use your *.img which you have in you grub or lilo
and for kernel - what you have in /lib/modules/ )
(watch output for errorrs!)
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Step 5:
if steps above go without problems,then:

#reboot

I think, this helps.

sandstorm

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From: Zurich [CH] & Mannheim [DE]

Registered: 2005-08-13

Posts: 169

Re: boot fails after pacman -Syu

Hi aris002,

your solution worked fine for me.

Martin