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vaine

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 15

Re: Kernal Panic - Not syncing: Attempting to kill init after pacman -Syu

1) Mount your hard drives
2) DON'T CHROOT
3) cd /arch/(LOCATION OF THE KERNEL)
4) cp kernel26* /mnt/MOUNTED HARD DRIVE/home
5) chroot to your install
6) cd to the location where you copied the kernel
7) pacman -U kernel26*
8) reboot and hope...

I am so confused.

on the disc its in addons/ thats what is says in the wiki and in the ISO.

How do I get to /addons? I cant do /arch/addons ebcause it does not exist.

So where is the kernel?

mkinitcpio -p kernel26

Did not work

Last edited by vaine (2008-11-18 22:58:43)

grep

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From: Finland

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 13

Re: Kernal Panic - Not syncing: Attempting to kill init after pacman -Syu

3) cd /arch/(LOCATION OF THE KERNEL)
4) cp kernel26* /mnt/MOUNTED HARD DRIVE/home

I am so confused.

on the disc its in addons/ thats what is says in the wiki and in the ISO.

How do I get to /addons? I cant do /arch/addons ebcause it does not exist.

So where is the kernel?

cd /media/cdrom/addons/core-pkgs

cp kernel26-2.6.25.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz /mnt/MOUNTED HARD DRIVE/home
           ^^ or something similar            ^^ adjust for your setup

?

Elsiko

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Registered: 2008-11-30

Posts: 2

Re: Kernal Panic - Not syncing: Attempting to kill init after pacman -Syu

Loading initramfs
/init:36:replace:not found
/init:36:replace:not found
Export:36:bad variable name
Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init

Hi,
I had exactly the same problem after my new install & update, i fixed it by following the instructions on this topic:
Boot on the live CD
Chroot my system
mkinitcpio -p kernel26
Thank you

PS: my english isnt really good because im French, i hope you will understand my message

sebleblanc

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2007-12-21

Posts: 41

Re: Kernal Panic - Not syncing: Attempting to kill init after pacman -Syu

I had that same problem, mkinitcpio did not fix it.

I chroot'd my system under some live CD distro, as shown on the wiki page.
I then reinstalled the "base" package. Problem went away.