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Davini

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 43

[Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

I did a

$pacman -Syyu

and my linux is broken.

I'm not sure if other people are encountering the same problem as me but I'm not sure what's going on.

My problem is I didn't update my bootloader configuration before I updated the system. Can I recover from this without doing a complete reinstall? And, how? I get the common Error 15 from grub.

As a side note: I've tried to look for solutions to editing the boot config and boot directory from a usb installer yet haven't found much that helps me. I really dont know anything about grub.

Edit: Solved.

Last edited by Davini (2011-08-14 19:34:35)

Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: [Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

Hey Davini, first don't panic, its easily fixed, no need to reinstall!

Search for 'grub error 15' or similar, there is about 10 threads on this in the last week or so.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

you should also read what pacman outputs and the announcements.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-t … filenames/

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Davini

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 43

Re: [Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

Cool thanks. I'll browse the forums and see if I can find the fix to my problem. If I can, I'll post how I fixed it in here.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,317

Re: [Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

As another hint, you can edit your grub line in grub itself. It's probably worth taking a look at the wiki article for grub.

Davini

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 43

Re: [Solved]Upgrade to 3.0

Ok, I fixed the problem. The fix was really easy. This is what I did:

Boot Archlinux install from USB/CD.

mount your boot directory. mine was /dev/sda7

mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/

edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

nano /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst

change

kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

to

kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img

I did this and everything is working great. Hope this helps anyone who is having trouble with grub.