[2011-08-10 07:43:40 +0200] Daniel Germer: > Hi, I could not boot after the last kernel update yesterday, I have no > idea what happened, my screen stopped at the bootsplash, I could not > even shutdown the machine from here. - Hard-Reset You should read the announcements. http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/ > I have found that the syslinux.cfg was not automatically updated to see > the new kernel. > > I moved /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to another place and > mv /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg.pacnew /sda1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg > > shouldn't this be done automatically? No. Configuration files are never overwritten. But pacman warns that "the new syslinux.cfg was installed as syslinux.cfg.pacnew". -- Gaetan