[arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

[Genes Lists]

On 01/12/2013 10:50 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:

> 
> There's nothing wrong with the kernel. You've probably been ignoring the
> warnings from pacman about file being newer than what's in the repos.
> file-5.12 was removed from [testing] because it was misidentifying
> kernel images, which broke mkinitcpio.
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33373
> 
> This is fixed for good in mkinitcpio, as the next version won't rely on
> file at all.
> 

  file-5.12:
	spot on - and sorry - downgraded to 5.11

  linux-3.7.2:
	Does this explain why 3.7.2 doesn't boot and 3.7.1 does? O
        Or is something still amiss with 3.7.2 kernel?

	Thanks ...

gene