That's why I installed the update-grub package a while back since grub then gets automatically updated so it uses the latest kernel to be loaded onto the machine. That's an aur package too. On Sat, 5 Nov 2016, Doug Newgard wrote:

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 09:56:13 From: Doug Newgard Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] kernel linux-4.8.6-1-x86_64 not able to load modules

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:50:30 +0200 Anast Gramm via arch-general wrote:

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Hey list,

After, as suggested in arch-annoucne, I force-upgrated ttf-dejavu I made a full system upgrade with pacman -Syu.

This installed the latest linux kernel. (the one in the subject line)

The initram was completed successfully and I procceded to reboot. Then Xserver would complain about my intel module (i915)

After a while I figured that nothin was loaded. I had no internet connection (ip link would only show loopback), when I plugged a USB drive the kernel woudln't detect it, and so on...

This usually happens because the bootloader is finding an old kernel. Either /boot wasn't mounted during the upgrade or the bootloader is looking at the wrong place.

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PS: On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 13:21:53 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote:

That's why I installed the update-grub package a while back since grub then gets automatically updated so it uses the latest kernel to be loaded onto the machine. That's an aur package too.

On Sat, 5 Nov 2016, Doug Newgard wrote:

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This usually happens because the bootloader is finding an old kernel. Either /boot wasn't mounted during the upgrade or the bootloader is looking at the wrong place.

What Doug is pointing out here is, that the modules located in /lib/modules get upgraded, but the kernel in /boot doesn't, no grub config could fix this.