[arch-general] Kernel updated to 3.14.5-1. Now my Lenovo IdeaPad hangs on boot...

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Manuel Reimer
<Manuel.Spam at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> On 06/03/2014 05:16 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
>>
>> To recover your machine:
>> 1) Boot from Arch ISO. I always have an USB pan with Arch image and
>> found it useful for emergency cases.
>> 2) Find your system partitions. Use 'lsblk' for this
>> 3) mount your system partition, e.g. 'mkdir system; mount /dev/sda1
>> system'
>> 4) arch-chroot into your system: 'arch-chroot system'
>> 5) fix your system e.g. downgrade kernel to previous version 'downgrade
>> linux'
>> 6) reboot and enjoy
>
>
> Did so, now. Now I'm on 3.14.4, again. System boots without any problems.
>
> But why can't I use the current kernel? Does someone here successfully boot
> 3.14.5 via efistub? Bug in kernel? Or maybe bug in kernel configuration?

You provided zero information about your problem so it is hard to tell
what is going on there. It might be a kernel bug, here is a changelog
since 3.14.4  https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.14.5
check if you see changes related to your issue.