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FS#13114 - The boot image gets trashed when installing the Nvidia drivers

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Randy (RJARRRPCGP) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 17:19 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 23:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: After installing the Nvidia driver, the RAM disk image is corrupted:

ERROR: root fs cannot be detected. Try using the rootfstype= kernel parameter.

ERROR: Unable to create/detect root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxx

Dropping to a recovery shell... type 'exit' to reboot

Additional info:
* package version(s)Nvidia 182.22
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce: Just do a "pacman -S nvidia" and reboot
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 23:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Randy (RJARRRPCGP) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 17:21 GMT
Note that the Nvidia package can be anywhere from 182.11 to 182.5x

But 182.11 is beta, it installed at least 182.2x.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 17:35 GMT
This can't possibly happen with relation to nvidia. nvidia does not touch or regenerate that image.

Have you upgraded your kernel recently? Changed the FS? Can you try the fallback image?
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 17:48 GMT
did your system is up to date?
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 18:17 GMT
Please show the pacman.log excerpt related to this installation.
Comment by Randy (RJARRRPCGP) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 21:33 GMT
It probably upgraded the kernel.
Comment by Randy (RJARRRPCGP) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 21:34 GMT
I'm posting this under Puppy 4.1.2 LOL. Gonna reformat with JFS and reinstall, BRB.
Comment by Randy (RJARRRPCGP) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 22:53 GMT
OK, I'm finally in KDE under Arch now ;)

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