Offline install

General
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Hello

I was using cachy on old laptop with i5 3rd gen laptop since May this year. Everything was fine, except it had errors on while attempting updates. Once it managed to update in November, it was low on disk space during update, so I had to reinstall from new iso. It was also running good, although slightly more heating from the laptop, although the use case remained as media player only.
Yesterday I also attempted to update, but it wouldn’t boot anymore.

After that new install failed to boot after installation was completed. I guess that it is using the same settings for update and new install, therefore not possible to boot on my system.

Is it possible to install version from isos ( both lateest and May iso boot fine) and to keep that sistem running installed?

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older isos don’t work and the install is a online/network install so it will download the newest packages.

It would be good to see if you get any errors when booting to see why it is actually failing.

Using an Arch based distro and not updating it, is a “disaster waiting to happen”

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My assumption was exactly what you said.

However, it worked while failing to upgrade and then stopped when it managed to update. It is strange that no other failed updates were discussed here, while my failed updates were consistent through several months.

Boot fails after initial cachy logo is displayed briefly and hangs on a completely blank screen. So I assume new kernel is not for older systems…
(Could be NVIDIA issue because it has some old version of it integrated and there was some manual override mentioned in newest blog post on installation)

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does your system work if you install the lts kernel?

There can be of course regressions on the newer kernel even for the newer hardware.

But if your update has failed, that is usually a good starting point for a failed boot.

But in general those are usually pretty easy to fix, you just have to boot the ISO and use cachy-chroot and then re run the sudo pacman -Syu

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I did not see option to choose from different kernels in installation processes…

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Yeah you would need to install other kernels after install, the installer only installs the default linux-cachyos kernel.

So with the newer isos, if it won’t boot after install, only option could be to boot the ISO again and chroot into the install and from there install the lts kernel and then selecting it on boot