On Monday 19 Mar 2012 18:03:11 Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 19.03.2012 17:44, schrieb Josh Silard: > > Thanks for the help. Does anybody know if there is a way to do this > > without > > a CD because I have no way to burn one right now. > > No. Apparently, some part of your initramfs got borked after the > upgrade, so you cannot access anything. It depends on what is broken. > > Check 'lsmod' in your ramfs environment. > > 1) If your drivers are not loaded, you can try loading them manually > (for example: modprobe ahci; modprobe sd_mod for modern SATA > controllers) and see if /dev/sd* appear. If that is the case, you can > mount /dev/sdXY /new_root manually, log out and your system SHOULD boot. > > This can be the problem when udev inside the initramfs doesn't work anymore. > > 2) If they are loaded, but your sdXY still don't show up, then the > kernel upgrade broke your driver. No way to fix that without a live > system, as you cannot access your hard drive. > > 3) If they are not loaded, and not present in initramfs > (/lib/modules/...), then your kernel modules were not included, you are > out of luck again. > > 4) If they are not loaded, and trying to load them with 'modprobe' > yields "command not found" or similar, the same, you need a live disc. > > There could be more problems. If we could communicate live, I could > probably tell you what's wrong within a few minutes. > > Now, you can provide me as much information as possible (sorry, you'll > have to type this into your phone manually), such as: > > 1) The output of 'lsmod' (first column suffices, you could even omit > everything that has an entry in the last column). > 2) The output of 'ps' (omit everything in [square brackets], so there > should only be like two or three entries). > 3) An overview of what's in /lib/modules/*/, as well as the name of the > folder in /lib/modules/ - also compare that folder name to your uname -r > output. By "overview", I mean just the names of the .ko files, in > particular, whatever is under kernel/drivers/). > > If you give me all that, plus a rought overview or picture of what > happens on your screen before the error message, I can tell you what's > wrong and how to fix it. He can do it without a CD alright, can't he? He has access to a computer, so most probably to a USB drive? He can use unetbootin to boot into USB. That is how I install my archlinux (My laptop DVD drive ditched me two years ago.) -- Jayesh Badwaik
