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nicholat

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Registered: 2015-08-05

Posts: 35

[SOLVED] Arch not booting after accidental shutdown during pacman -Syu

So, it finally happened: my computer accidentally shut down during `pacman -Syu`, and now Arch won't boot. Typically the rEFInd screen will flash briefly and immediately start booting Arch, but now it just shows the rEFInd screen and doesn't do anything, with no options to boot the OS (presumably it can't find it or something like that).

I've mounted the system from a USB and `arch-chroot`ed into it, but haven't had any luck fixing it so far. Removed the pacman database lock and tried running `pacman -Su`, but it just says `there is nothing to do`, and the system still won't boot.

Any ideas and/or help?

Edit:

Solved this problem with help from the IRC channel; all it took was reinstalling the Linux image with `pacman -S linux`.

Last edited by nicholat (2023-08-10 07:33:16)