[arch] Arch and mkinitcpio problems

[Jackson Robertson]

Well here is the deal, I've been having some trouble with my computer of
late, it hard freezes after my computer has been on for about an hour or
some, pretty randomly. I thought it might the harddrive I have linux on so I
reinstalled arch to different drive, but on that drive linux was hard
freezing after only about 2-3 hours. Well thats not good at all. I then
reinstalled arch (.72 cd) back to the drive I had it on in the first place.
Everything was working fine until I pacman -Syu and replaced mkinitramfs (or
whatever it use to be) with mkinitcpio. I then restarted and the system
would not boot. I used a livecd to mess with the sda hda stuff but to no
avail, I tried everything that could possibly have worked on my system. So I
ended up installing ubuntu 6.10 so that I could have a working computer
without having to use a livecd. And that is where I stand today.

My question to all of you is this, if I were to use the new .8 install cd
would I still run into this problem? Since the .8 media already has
mkinitcpio it should setup things up correctly, yes? I really want arch
back, I have come to just love arch and I can't believe I ever liked ubuntu,
just not to my liking anymore.

Another question I have is in concern of my seeming hardware issues. If its
not linux or some other piece of software causing my hard freezes, then what
could it be? Right now my best guess would be either a harddrive or my
powersupply.

Can anyone help me out with either of these two problems. Thanks and I hope
to be back on arch here real soon.

Jackson
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