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Old 04-03-2004, 03:41 AM   #1
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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!
 
Old 04-03-2004, 11:26 AM   #2
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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.
 
Old 04-03-2004, 11:39 AM   #3
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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............
 
Old 04-03-2004, 04:06 PM   #4
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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=
 
Old 04-03-2004, 04:59 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 04-04-2004, 12:19 AM   #6
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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?
 
Old 04-04-2004, 12:36 AM   #7
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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

Last edited by colnago; 04-04-2004 at 12:38 AM.
 
Old 04-04-2004, 12:39 AM   #8
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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?
 
Old 04-04-2004, 05:45 AM   #9
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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!
 
Old 04-04-2004, 11:34 AM   #10
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I am glad it is working for you, sorry I couldn't figure out the problem.
 
Old 04-04-2004, 11:45 AM   #11
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Hey I'm very happy that you took your time to help me.
Thanks, hope I can return the favor sometime...
 
  


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