[arch-general] no Boot after last kernel update

Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl
Wed Aug 10 05:29:17 EDT 2011


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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