Re: no Boot after last kernel update

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[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


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