Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-04 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Thank you all for your replies. I may have found the problem, although I'm not sure because I ended up re-installing: tired of using live CDs and rebooting to see if my changes had any effect on the problem, I decided to do an ftp re-installation... but when I created my network connection, I kept

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-02 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/3/2, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello All, > > Thank you for your replies. > > To answer a few questions: > > * versions before and after ugrade (I'm can see I've probably > attempted a combination which won't work...) > - kernel: 2.6.15-2 ---> 2.6.22 > - udev: 079-1 > - i

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-02 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Hello All, Thank you for your replies. To answer a few questions: * versions before and after ugrade (I'm can see I've probably attempted a combination which won't work...) - kernel: 2.6.15-2 ---> 2.6.22 - udev: 079-1 - initscripts: 0.7.1-17 - mkinitrd 1.01-25 -> mkinitcpio 0.5.15-2 When I upgr

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-03-01 Thread RedShift
Stephen Wilkinson wrote: Hello everyone, After upgrading the kernel alone (and after fixing some kernel panics -- see postscript) the boot sequence now stops at loading the modules ([DONE]) and goes no further: the cursor blinks and I can type characters, but I never get a shell prompt. It see

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread w9ya
> Stephen Wilkinson schrieb: >> I tried booting into different run levels (adding 1 or 3 to the kernel >> line of grub), but it makes no difference. > I'm no dev - but as far as I know the bsd-style initscripts gave > ArchLinux no runlevels like you find them in SysV-style systems like > Debian or

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Johannes Held
Stephen Wilkinson schrieb: I tried booting into different run levels (adding 1 or 3 to the kernel line of grub), but it makes no difference. I'm no dev - but as far as I know the bsd-style initscripts gave ArchLinux no runlevels like you find them in SysV-style systems like Debian or SUSE. Run

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/29, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > After kernel upgrade I got kernel panics because I hadn't changed > > initrd26.img to kernel26.img and /dev/hda5 to /dev/sda5 in Grub's > > menu.lst (as you can s

Re: [arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2008/2/29, Stephen Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello everyone, > > After upgrading the kernel alone (and after fixing some kernel panics > -- see postscript) the boot sequence now stops at loading the modules > ([DONE]) and goes no further: the cursor blinks and I can type > characters, bu

[arch-general] Boot sequence stops at modules (rc.sysinit)

2008-02-29 Thread Stephen Wilkinson
Hello everyone, After upgrading the kernel alone (and after fixing some kernel panics -- see postscript) the boot sequence now stops at loading the modules ([DONE]) and goes no further: the cursor blinks and I can type characters, but I never get a shell prompt. It seems the boot sequence doesn't