My arch broke

archuser · 2006-10-21 08:10:47

I don't know why but when I upgraded last night my system broke. :shock: The update was to the latest kernel, mkinitcpio, udev, nvidia, etc from versions only a release earlier. (i.e my system was already up to date bar those next version upgrades)

It couldn't mount the filesystem to boot up. I had to re-install the base system but luckily I could mount the existing partitions to install to without having to reformat. Then hal, dbus, portmap and fam failed to start so I had to re-install them and gnome.

Was there any major changes to the kernel that might have caused my system to fail? Or was I just struck by sod's law?

tpowa · 2006-10-21 08:58:06

just change your ramdisk,
boot with kernel26.img instead of initrd26.img, then change it permanent in your bootloader after successfull boot.
check wiki for mkinitcpio for more information

archuser · 2006-10-21 10:08:05

Thanks but I've already been using mkinitcpio and kernel26.img.

lanrat · 2006-10-21 12:52:26

Did you try changing it in grub to kernel26-fallback.img ?
And what exactly was the error ? Was it acpi related or disk related or... ?
Do you have any custom udev rules?
What's the hardware configuration (what kind of disks etc.)?

archuser · 2006-10-21 17:21:43

I can't remember exactly the error messages but they were something like not being to mount block device (0,0) and kernel panic: not synching with filesystem.

I have a custom rule for VMware in udev. The one it says about in the Wiki.

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My arch broke

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