Hey Archers, my issue begins with me trying to patch vmware for 3.6.3-1-arch I tried using vmware & this told me the modules were not present for 3.6.3 so I went to grab latest from AUR (vmware-patch), the comments on there suggested that the ones for 3.5.x still worked but needed to be rebuilt. so I read these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation I noticed that in the finishing up section it gave a warning that if I update the kernel need too issue the following: vmware-modconfig --console --install-all so I ran this & tried to run vmplayer this opened but crashed as soon as i tried to play a VM, I then decided that as I had not used it for some time I would just remove it: vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-player this finished & so I ran: pacman -R vmware-patch all was ok (so I thought) a while later I had to reboot to do something in my win7 install (non volatile) upon completing I rebooted back to arch & now my install refuses to boot & I see: Failed to start load Kernel Modules [FAILED] see 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details obviously systemd fall's over & offers to enter password or control-D to continue well the system refuses to go any further & locks up totally (no flashing kbd lights like a panic though!) the exact same happens when I boot the fallback kernel I can chroot into it using the old media (CORE 2011.08.19) which is the most recent I have, whilst chrooted in I thought perhaps the old vmware modules did not get removed correctly so I blacklisted them in: /etc/modprobe.d/vmware.conf blacklist vmmon [...] I have managed to get into the system using the following boot parameter: systemd.unit=rescue.target I then ran: systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service this provided the default message about the service not starting but no reason why or what caused it to fail So any advice or way forward would be appreciated as I am totally lost & have googled everything I can think of which may help but this is the first time I have b0rk3d the modules & am lost as to what to do. -- Regards Thomas Rand