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Navillus

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Registered: 2008-04-05

Posts: 11

Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

Apologies if this is in the wrong place

due to a slight technical problem my graphics card ceased to work and ive only just replaced it after having my system down for over a month, having rebooted into arch and left the computer to do a full update i rebooted and got the following error message...(apologies capitalization might be wrong...)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|    :: Loading Initramfs                                                    |
|    /init : 36 : replace : not found                                        |
|    /init : 36 : replace : not found                                        |
|    export : 36 : bad variable name                                    |
|    Kernel Panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init            |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

anyone got any ideas on what the problem could be...

i have tried to boot using the live cd however im having difficulty- no idea whether its my incompetence or the initial problems fault so ill continue to try to work on that

im running arch 64 bit on an AMD X2 4200 any info you need me to give just say and ill try to find it...

thanks
Navillus

Last edited by Navillus (2008-09-25 22:55:51)

Navillus

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Registered: 2008-04-05

Posts: 11

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

meh should really label my backup cds better it was my own stupidity...

well the livecd boots fine into the distribution using
arch /dev/sdb5 noinitrd ro
as its boot options except it does not have support for the reiserfs filesystem built in... so i have no access to /var...

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

why are you using the noinitrd option?

Navillus

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Registered: 2008-04-05

Posts: 11

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

because that's the instructions for booting into an existing partition from a livecd... according to the online manuals...

Navillus

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Registered: 2008-04-05

Posts: 11

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

have now tried without the noinitramfs option

i ran
mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img
which made the bootup error /dev/sdb5(my root device) does not exist...

any clues?

Last edited by Navillus (2008-09-26 21:40:15)

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

If your system works fine when booted via the live cd try forcing a kernel install (pacman -Sy kernel26) and check that there are no errors in the install process.  Also, it migt be worth checking to see if there are any .pacnew files that you forgot to merge after the big update.

Navillus

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Registered: 2008-04-05

Posts: 11

Re: Upgrade Error- Kernel Panic

Found the problem i'd forgotten to tell mkinitcpio that i wanted it to build against a different kernel to the one running (-k 2.6.26-ARCH was the required option...)

sorry for being a hassle thank you
now onto the joys of xserver configuration...