On 15 August 2010 19:14, Johannes Held <mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > during the last days I updated my old notebook. It wasn't updated since > 2007. So you can imagine that the latest switch from tar.gz to tar.xz > was a little problem. > But a manual installation of the necessary packages and some rude > untaring directly in / gave me the ability to update the whole system > with pacman again. :-) That's awesome. > > However, some configs are borked, X refuses to start and booting won't > work anymore due to some problems with the right rootfstype. > That doesn't matter, because I don't need that notebook any more - it > was simply amazing to see it getting updated. :-) I'm really interested in cases like this =p 1) remove any xorg.conf that you have 2) edit mkinitcpio.conf for a 'full' image 3) grub-install (ensure menu.lst or grub.cfg is correct) Tell us if you're able to revive it. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
