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Kernel Upgrade breaks Arch Linux

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The cool thing about arch linux is that you can upgrade to the latest releases, but it is very probably you'll screw up your system. I upgraded to kernel 2.6.27-2 which wasn't a very wise decision. I got a kernel panic on reboot saying the /init could not be found. I tried setting the init param in menu.lst but still it didn't work.

Hmm, I think I did something wrong during the upgrade. I remember klibc screaming about errors, maybe it had something to do with it. Either way, I used by ubuntu install to chroot and reinstall the kernel26. That did it. The kernel itself didn't work at first so I used the "fallback" version. The reasonĀ  is that /sys/ didn't map to the right location. I don't know where it's supposed to map. I only mapped dev. Oh, well, after using the fallback kernel, I was able to reinstall kernel26 with pacman. This fixed my system.

I'm glad to see that ndiswrapper is not whining anymore about the kernel like it did with 2.6.26. Yeay! back on track. Also, I managed to move all my blogs from my old blog, and blogger into a this new one. Aint't it cool?

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