Upgrading kernel from 2.6.3 > 2.6.4
 

Dear Archers, resently i upgradet the system with the well known pacman -Syu

During this, the kernel was automatically upgraded from 2.6.3-scsi to 2.6.4-scsi. Aften the upgrade was succesfully done, i ran lilo.
Now the system won't boot.

Can someone please explain to me what I did wrong?


I checked the /boot patition and my lilo.conf by booting on the Arch cd, and cdroot into my installed linux. Both the lilo.conf and the /boot looks fine.


Thanks in advance!

Just to clarify for me, after you chroot, you did a 'lilo' and it did not complain about anything.

How far does the boot get?

Do you have a seperate boot partition? If so, check to see it did not fill up.

Thanks for your reply!

There is no indikation of any kind og error when runing lilo.

Upon booting the system stops after the Checking the kernel............

hello, very strange
boot with the CD, mount you / and your /boot partition
chroot to /
and try you luck with lilo -v and see if there's sth wrong.

see also How I made it!
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.p...147&highlight=

I have forgotten to run lilo after a kernel upgrade in the past, and the symptom is exactly like you say. Since that is not it, I hope someone else has some ideas for you.

Well I have been looking a bit into it.
It seems that under a normal Arch installation, it uses the file "map". After upgrading there is a file called "system.map26" could that have something to do with it?

Anyway I tried to add the map=/boot/system.map26 in lilo, ran the lilo command re reboot. Same result... Strange.

What if I used grub instead? How dows one update the grub interfaces?

In case you want to look to see sizes and dates, here is a /boot from a 2.6.3->2.6.4 via 'pacman -Syu' system. I last ran lilo Apr 2 22:34.

>ls -ltr /boot
total 3476
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2506547 Mar 11 00:03 vmlinuz26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951556 Mar 11 00:03 System.map26
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 26 06:52 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 26 06:55 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40942 Mar 26 15:09 kconfig26
-rw------- 1 root root 38400 Apr 2 22:34 map

For grub you set up menu.lst in /boot/grub

Hmm what is that boot.0300 file you got there?

Are you using grub or lilo?

If using grub, there is no need to "update" it like lilo?

Hmm thats odd...

I reinstall the system with the Arch cd.
Changed from the scsi kernel to the normal one. Updated the system with pacman -Syu.
Ran lilo, and rebooted.

No problemmo. Everything worked flawless!
Strange!

I am glad it is working for you, sorry I couldn't figure out the problem.

Hey I'm very happy that you took your time to help me.
Thanks, hope I can return the favor sometime...