I don't have that particular problem, but I did have a similar one. After upgrading to 2.6.28, the system, on boot, would give an ominous-sounding message about not recognising my sound card (which, ironically, turned out to be a red herring), blurt out that it can't connect to X and hang -- I'd get a blank screen, no X, and no display of virtual terminals. Everything else, including the keyboard, worked fine, which meant it wasn't the kernel. After booting into single-user mode, I upgraded the (properietary) nvidia driver and everything seemed to work. Just my two cents, as useless as they probably are. -- Leonid 2009/1/19 Anton Achatz :

Hello,

i have a problem after updating to kernel 2.6.27 or 2.6.28. After updating the kernel i am not able to boot the system. The system doesn' t recognize the boot harddisk sda6. the recommendation to set bootdelay = 8 doesnt help. Does someone know what to do.

greetings Toni

yes, my /boot is on a separate partition (sda2) pacman didn't spit out any problems or errors so i will try to do what you suggest. to boot from an external medium should be no problem. the next steps i have to 'google'. My /boot partition is sda6 and my /root is on sda6 so i have to chroot /dev/sda6 and then mkinitcpio ??? I will see (hope so). Thank you very much. Toni 2009/1/19 kludge :

Anton Achatz wrote:

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Hello,

i have a problem after updating to kernel 2.6.27 or 2.6.28. After updating the kernel i am not able to boot the system. The system doesn' t recognize the boot harddisk sda6. the recommendation to set bootdelay = 8 doesnt help. Does someone know what to do.

greetings Toni

is you /boot on a separate partition by an chance?

did pacman spit out any errors during the upgrade? particularly

at a guess, your initcpio didn't get rebuilt, or got rebuilt improperly. try booting from an external medium, chroot into your system, and mkinitcpio.

-kludge