[Solved] Arch Linux won't boot, GRUB error 15

mastrgamr · 2011-08-08 02:10:51

Recently I did a system upgrade with "pacman -Syu". There wasn't many updates i only saw a kernel upgrade to 3.0.1 (something like that), the update was complete and I decieded before I restarted my system i would install LibreOffice, there was another error, with that installation. There was some error with redline and raptor (I'm not 100% on the names but i know they both start with R and it was two of them). Any way it was somewhere along the lines of "redline: /usr/.... : already exists in the filesystem".

So before I continued I figured screw it, I'll restart my system and figure out what's wrong later. So I reboot, and can't get back in -_-* great. So now I have the GRUB error 15 the prompt tells me press any key to continue... and now I can only boot into my windows partition. What can I do from here? I don't want to reinstall arch, only as a last resort.

Last edited by mastrgamr (2011-08-08 03:25:09)

karol · 2011-08-08 02:18:57

There are threads about linux 3 update, maybe they can help you figure things out.

mastrgamr · 2011-08-08 02:29:52

I already had kernel 3.0 during this system update, this update applied another 3.0 update... if that makes a difference.

karol · 2011-08-08 02:34:28

mastrgamr wrote:

I already had kernel 3.0 during this system update, this update applied another 3.0 update... if that makes a difference.

So you're using a custom kernel I think, because this is the first time linux 3 is in the core repos.

Have you compared your grub settings to that's actually on your disk? Maybe you need to make some adjustments.

mastrgamr · 2011-08-08 02:41:11

not sure what you're saying ... grub was working fine before if that's what you're asking, I've had the distro on my system for about a week before today.
to be honest I'm not even sure what is a custom kernel, from day one I just did a "pacman -S linux linux-headers", which replaced kernel26 and it's headers and from there I was golden, until today.

P.S I'm sure it was this update that did it (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/)

karol · 2011-08-08 02:47:10

So from day one you were using an unofficial repo or testing repo.

Have you tried fixing the paths https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 68#p972168 ?

mastrgamr · 2011-08-08 03:16:44

It's aliiiive!! I did what the person in your link said they did and it worked. I just edited the GRUB entries to /vmlinuz-linux, and the kernel to /initramfs-linux.img and booted from there, now my system is working fine. I'm typing in arch right now.
I guess grub was trying to boot from kernel images that aren't in my system anymore. Also, this annoying error message "Unable to enumerate USB device at port 5" is not clogging up my terminal anymore.

Thanks for the help!

karol · 2011-08-08 03:22:22

You are in a car, at night, driving at high speed with your lights off - that's how I would describe your situation.
You don't pay attention to pacman output (which I think would solve the mystery of those error messages), you don't even read the news that are on the main page. You don't know your system.

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#1 2011-08-08 02:10:51

[Solved] Arch Linux won't boot, GRUB error 15

#2 2011-08-08 02:18:57

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