Hi, it seems your method is really complex. Is there any simple way? For my case, do you know how to fix the problem of lilo and grub-common?
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 7, 2014, at 17:18, Nowaker <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems OP is already done, but I hope this will by useful for anyone > struggling to upgrade a VERY old Arch Linux. > > Warning: this is only for experienced users. Beginners do the backups and > install Arch from scratch. > > Before proceeding, be sure to have several ssh sessions, logged as root. > Don't rely on sudo. If your session dies in the middle of the process, LiveCD > and VNC will be your only help. SSH won't let you in because it won't be able > to exec the shell. > > pacman -Sy > pacman -Sd pacman-static coreutils-static #1 > sed -i 's@PackageRequired@Never #PackageRequired@' /etc/pacman.conf #2 > pacman -Syu #3 > pacman -Su --ignore filesystem,glibc,gcc-libs,gcc-libs-multilib > pacman-static -Sd glibc --ignore filesystem #4 > pacman-static -S filesystem > pacman-static -S gcc-libs gcc libtool > pacman -S pacman libarchive package-query > pacman -S ca-certificates #5 > pacman -Syu > pacman -S mkinitcpio grub systemd #6 > mkinitcpio -p linux > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > sed -i 's@Never #PackageRequired@PackageRequired@' /etc/pacman.conf > > > Why pacman-static? Because during the process you will end up with a broken > system that is not able to execute anything because of mismatch between glibc > (will be newer) and libraries (will be older). You won't be able to call > pacman at some stage, so you need a statically compiled pacman. > > Why coreutils-static? Just in case. No binary from coreutils is used in my > guide, but if anything happens - static coreutils is your rescue. Find them > in /rescue/bin. > > > During the process you may see lots of errors reported by pacman - cannot > exec, or something like that. You can't help this. If a package does some > important stuff in .install script, you should reinstall the package after > the process yourself. > > > #1 I have these packages in my private repo; you need to build them yourself > from AUR. > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static/ > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/coreutils-static/ > > #2 In a (temporarily) broken Arch Linux, pacman can't check signatures > because it's either trying to execute or dynamically link some library. It > won't work. We have to disable signature checking. > > #3 It will fail; done just to download all files to disk. > > #4 glibc used to own the directories that currently filesystem owns; we > upgrade glibc to get rid of these directories, so filesystem can be installed > smoothly in the next step > > #5 Depending on how old your Arch is, it's possible that ca-certificates's > .install script was not properly run when -Syu was performed, so it has to be > done again. > > #6 In case they contain something important in .install which could fail > during the first -Syu > > -- > Kind regards, > Damian Nowak > StratusHost > www.AtlasHost.eu
