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Raws

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From: Campo Grande - Brazil

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 47

canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

Hello all.

I use 3 computers with arch.

I've made the usual "Syu" upgrade this afternoon in two of then, read pacmans messages and found nothing unusual.

As the kernel packages had been upgraded, I chose to reboot the machine.

Since then, I cant pass grub screen in one of my computers (C2D E7500, intel graphics, 500GB).

After grub I receive one of this two messages: "error 16: inconsistent filesystem structure Press any key to continue", or "error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS".

It doesn't seem to be a hardware issue. I can boot live discs and access the HDs.

I've searched the foruns, tried to use UUIDs in place of "sda" and to use the kernel fallback... Didnt work.

I dont know what to do next... Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Raws

Edit: partitions configuration

sda1 15GB ubuntu (boot is here)
sda2 4GB swap
sda5 15GB arch
sda6 466GB data

Last edited by Raws (2010-01-09 22:29:06)

hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

Posts: 254

Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

What is the content of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file? Do you use such things as 'savedefault' ? if so try commenting that part out, and try to boot your arch-linux with just the 'root' 'kernel' 'initrd' lines present.

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Raws

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From: Campo Grande - Brazil

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 47

Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

There is just the basic options on menu.lst

root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 rppt=/dev/sda5 resume=/dev/sda2 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
quiet

I've already tried to use the UUID description of the partition. Didnt work.

Also, removing the vga=773 made no difference.

I've booted on a opensuse liveCD and run fsck on all partitions. On sda1 (ubuntu, unused for months) it found an "unexpected inconsistency", so I've run "e2fsck -f -c -y /dev/sda1", as indicated here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Fsck:_Unexpe … onsistency

After the reboot... the problem continues the same.

Other ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help

Raws

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From: Campo Grande - Brazil

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 47

Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

Also.

All partitions are ext4.

About two or three weeks ago a blackout turned the machine off, but after that i've been using it withou problems since then.

The exact moment when everything stoped working was when I rebooted after the last update.

hungerfish

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Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

hmm, my grub lines are:

root   (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/... ro
initrd /kernel26.img

This is using a seperate partition for /boot which is ext2.
Maybe the recent kernel-update messed up ext4 support, although I'm not sure if it is actually supported by grub for booting from. I know that it can work, but I'm pretty sure that there are or were some issues with it at somepoint, hence I have that very small extra partition as ext2.

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Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

Ext4 support is fine; my /boot is ext4 and works.

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sand_man

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Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

Also.

All partitions are ext4.

About two or three weeks ago a blackout turned the machine off, but after that i've been using it withou problems since then.

The exact moment when everything stoped working was when I rebooted after the last update.

You might need to use a boot disk and find out what the uuid of the root partition is and use that in the grub config instead of sda*

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Raws

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From: Campo Grande - Brazil

Registered: 2009-08-19

Posts: 47

Re: canot boot past grub after last kernel upgrade (2.6.32.3-1)

I already tried to use the boot and use the UUID in the place of the sda*.

Didnt work.

Next step, probably, will be to reinstall GRUB/boot on the weekend. And, if that doesnt work, full reinstall of arch.

Any other ideas before that would be wellcome.

Thanks for the help until now.