On 12/31/20 2:41 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I'm not an arch user. Having said that, it should still be possible > for you to bring up the boot loader screen, and boot from your > previous kernel. Failing that, I understand the arch installation iso > is fairly feature rich. If yes, you should be able to use that as a > rescue disk, mount your guest's partition(s), and downgrade the kernel > that way. In the future, if you're going to make big changes to your > guest like a new kernel, take a snapshot. If things go bye-bye, you > restore the snapshot, and you're back to where you started. One of the > beauties of VirtualBox. > > Greg >
Thank you Greg, That is what I figured. I have had this host and guest since the 4.X version and have probably updated 30 kernels, remotely over vnc, so I was surprised with the 5.9.14 -> 5.10.3 kernel update went bad. I have had the guest additions not build dozens of times as Arch is on the bleeding-edge with upstream and usually updates to the current kernel a month or so before the Oracle release to support the new kernel. The testcase builds have always worked without much drama. The Arch install .iso will allow me to boot and chroot the system. Hopefully that will remain stable enough for a kernel downgrade. The 5.9.14 modules will still be in the tree. If I boot with the Arch .iso and mount the current directories, is there anything other than the new 6.1.17 guest addition kernel modules I can manually wipe to give the guest the best chance of starting? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
