[arch-general] no Boot after last kernel update
Hi, I could not boot after the last kernel update yesterday, I have no idea what happened, my screen stopped at the bootsplash, I could not even shutdown the machine from here. - Hard-Reset I had to use a live-CD to fix my system I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see the new kernel. I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg shouldn't this be done automatically? I don't remember this happening after the last kernel update...
[2011-08-10 07:43:40 +0200] Daniel Germer:
Hi, I could not boot after the last kernel update yesterday, I have no idea what happened, my screen stopped at the bootsplash, I could not even shutdown the machine from here. - Hard-Reset
You should read the announcements. http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/
I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see the new kernel.
I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
shouldn't this be done automatically?
No. Configuration files are never overwritten. But pacman warns that "the new syslinux.cfg was installed as syslinux.cfg.pacnew". -- Gaetan
Am 10.08.2011 08:00, schrieb Gaetan Bisson:
I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see the new kernel.
I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
shouldn't this be done automatically?
No. Configuration files are never overwritten. But pacman warns that "the new syslinux.cfg was installed as syslinux.cfg.pacnew".
What everyone seems to miss that it is not necessary to change anything - everything should continue working if you just update and reboot.
On 08/10/2011 10:00 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 10.08.2011 08:00, schrieb Gaetan Bisson: >>> I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see >>> the new kernel. >>> >>> I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and >>> mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg >>> >>> shouldn't this be done automatically? >> No. Configuration files are never overwritten. But pacman warns that >> "the new syslinux.cfg was installed as syslinux.cfg.pacnew". > What everyone seems to miss that it is not necessary to change anything > - everything should continue working if you just update and reboot. > Please notice, that you don't want to overwrite a config file without a diff first. -- Jelle van der Waa
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Daniel Germer
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Gaetan Bisson
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Jelle van der Waa
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Thomas Bächler