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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

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After updating the system does not boot anymore!

I made an usual update with 'pacman -Syu' and since I saw a kernel update I rebooted...

After reboot the lilo menu appears, it autoselects arch after 2 seconds, it appears

boot:
loading arch........................... .................................

nothing more. No errors, no messages at all!

It is the same also using the fallback.
What happened? Can I do something or I have to reinstall arch from zero?

edit: typo
edit2: it can be related to the fact the I have /boot partition and lilo in different disks?

Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-06-03 18:31:34)

mitsoko

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Registered: 2007-05-08

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Re: After updating the system does not boot anymore!

i don't use lilo so i can't help on that part apart from asking if you remembered to exec lilo after kernel upgrade .. also, what versions did you upgrade form/to and did you modify any options, in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf for example..

ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: After updating the system does not boot anymore!

exec lilo? No, what do you mean?
About version I guess it is from the previous to the lastest... :S Sorry I do not remember the number and now the machine does not boot!
About modifying, no... I just rebooted.

kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

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Re: After updating the system does not boot anymore!

With lilo, you need to run `lilo` as root after every kernel update or change to your lilo configuration.

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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

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Re: After updating the system does not boot anymore!

I see, so now I have to start the machine with the arch CD. Mount the drives, chroot the directory where I mounted and starting lilo should solve.
Thanks everyone.

edit: it worked! Thanks everyone.

Last edited by ezzetabi (2007-06-04 06:38:09)

mitsoko

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Re: After updating the system does not boot anymore!

yay lol