Arch Linux

dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Kernel panic and other issues

I installed Arch in VirtualBox with no problem, and actually booted it a few times after that. But then once when booting I got a kernel panic message. I powered off the virtual machine and tried starting it again. This time I got the following message:

Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

A few minutes later I get a screen like this:

Other times I just saw a bunch of hexcode before it freezes.

I thought there was something wrong with the installation so I re-installed Arch but I'm having all the same problems.

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blairkatu

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 6

Re: Kernel panic and other issues

change your root= option in grub to the /dev location of your partition (that the kernel is on) then follow the kernel panic instrucions in the Arch wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics
I fixed this problem two days ago, my root= looks like this:
root=/dev/sda3
yours will be similar, maybe hda1 sda1 etc depending on your hd config
heres the source for the grub edit instructions
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … t_Problems

dbbolton

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Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 41

Re: Kernel panic and other issues

change your root= option in grub to the /dev location of your partition (that the kernel is on) then follow the kernel panic instrucions in the Arch wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics
I fixed this problem two days ago, my root= looks like this:
root=/dev/sda3
yours will be similar, maybe hda1 sda1 etc depending on your hd config
heres the source for the grub edit instructions
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ker … t_Problems

I actually tried something like this. I used the "automatic" partitioning from the installation CD, so I guessed that it would be either sda1 or hda1 (since it was on a virtual machine I didn't know which). Neither of those worked and I gave up and deleted the VM. But thanks for your suggestions anyway.

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