[Solved]Booting Error - Frozen on "Loading Initial Ramdisk"

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 18:19:09

Hello,

This is my first time installing archlinux and I am doing so on a UEFI system with grub as my bootloader. When I try and reboot from my drive I receive the following output:

Loading Linux linux ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

and then the system freezes every time. Any ideas on what I could try to fix this? Thanks!

Last edited by mrhodes (2018-06-06 21:40:51)

dockland · 2018-06-01 18:29:52

Can you post output of your fstab?

loqs · 2018-06-01 19:27:29

Remove the quiet option from Kernel_parameters#GRUB if present and add loglevel=7 does that produce more output if so what is the additional output?

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 20:04:52

loqs wrote:

Remove the quiet option from Kernel_parameters#GRUB if present and add loglevel=7 does that produce more output if so what is the additional output?

I removed quiet and added loglevel=7 but there was no additional output, it still froze on loading initial ramdisk.

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 20:11:02

dockland wrote:

Can you post output of your fstab?

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/nvme0n1p2
UUID=9368fa12-f21d-4d2a-b1c9-2cadc28dc045	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID=640E-62E8      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p4
UUID=c1a9ac0d-271b-418a-8619-4454c880f1cc	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p3
UUID=b30fbc60-461b-4891-a82f-7f562ab9ca2e	none      	swap      	defaults,pri=-2	0 0

WorMzy · 2018-06-01 20:13:02

What hardware is this? Specifically CPU and Graphics, but as much information as you can provide would be helpful.

And which ISO did you use to install Arch?

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 20:34:25

WorMzy wrote:

What hardware is this? Specifically CPU and Graphics, but as much information as you can provide would be helpful.
And which ISO did you use to install Arch?

The ISO was ARCH_201805. As for the hardware, I am using a Lenovo Yoga 720 with an Intel i7 7th generation core processor and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.

loqs · 2018-06-01 20:35:39

Are the messages frozen on the screen or does the screen go blank?

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 20:44:00

loqs wrote:

Are the messages frozen on the screen or does the screen go blank?

The messages are frozen on the screen.

seth · 2018-06-01 20:44:27

What happens if you boot with "nomodeset" as kernel parameter?

loqs · 2018-06-01 20:50:53

To stop any of the GPU's in the system using KMS "nomodeset i915.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=0"

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 21:55:13

seth wrote:

What happens if you boot with "nomodeset" as kernel parameter?

No further output is achieved. Still freezes on loading initial ramdisk.

loqs · 2018-06-01 22:16:37

If you remove the root and initrd kernel options does the output change?
If you boot the installation media. What kernel version does that have? (from the output of uname -r something like 4.16.5-1-ARCH)
The installed system if you Installation_guide#Chroot and check the version of linux on the installed system with pacman -Q linux..

mrhodes · 2018-06-01 22:47:37

loqs wrote:

If you remove the root and initrd kernel options does the output change?
If you boot the installation media. What kernel version does that have? (from the output of uname -r something like 4.16.5-1-ARCH)
The installed system if you Installation_guide#Chroot and check the version of linux on the installed system with pacman -Q linux..

I didn't see any root option in the kernel settings, but removing the initrd option did not change the output. The installation media used kernel version 4.16.5-1-ARCH but the installed system had kernel version linux 4.16.12-1

wptskybzy · 2018-06-04 07:43:35

mrhodes wrote:

WorMzy wrote:
What hardware is this? Specifically CPU and Graphics, but as much information as you can provide would be helpful.
And which ISO did you use to install Arch?
The ISO was ARCH_201805. As for the hardware, I am using a Lenovo Yoga 720 with an Intel i7 7th generation core processor and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.

I have the same problem with you. My graphics card is NVIDIA Quadro P620. Both GeForce GTX 1050 and Quadro P620 has the same code: GP107. I think that's the problem....

mrhodes · 2018-06-04 17:28:49

wptskybzy wrote:

mrhodes wrote:
WorMzy wrote:
What hardware is this? Specifically CPU and Graphics, but as much information as you can provide would be helpful.
And which ISO did you use to install Arch?
The ISO was ARCH_201805. As for the hardware, I am using a Lenovo Yoga 720 with an Intel i7 7th generation core processor and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card.
I have the same problem with you. My graphics card is NVIDIA Quadro P620. Both GeForce GTX 1050 and Quadro P620 has the same code: GP107. I think that's the problem....

That's unfortunate... Do you happen to know of a prior version of Arch that doesn't have this bug?

seth · 2018-06-04 18:15:02

There is nothing such as "a prior version of Arch".

The other thread suggests that this is a problem w/ the nvidia blob only, so you should try nouveau in order to figure whether you're actually on the same page.

If so, you could try the 390xx nvidia driver (not sure whether it already covers your GPU, though) or pass "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" to the kernel parameters.
In any case, a journal of the failed boot might reveal more about the problem.

loqs · 2018-06-04 18:34:34

You could downgrade the kernel to 4.16.5-1. You can obtain the package from the ALA.

mrhodes · 2018-06-04 22:00:23

loqs wrote:

You could downgrade the kernel to 4.16.5-1. You can obtain the package from the ALA.

I tried downgrading the kernel and there was still no additional output.

mrhodes · 2018-06-04 22:02:48

seth wrote:

There is nothing such as "a prior version of Arch".
The other thread suggests that this is a problem w/ the nvidia blob only, so you should try nouveau in order to figure whether you're actually on the same page.
If so, you could try the 390xx nvidia driver (not sure whether it already covers your GPU, though) or pass "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" to the kernel parameters.
In any case, a journal of the failed boot might reveal more about the problem.

When booting off of the installation drive, the nouveau driver was used. I installed it on my hard drive to try it and it still froze on "loading initial ramdisk."

seth · 2018-06-04 22:07:02

You installed "what" on your harddrive?
The nouveau module is part of the kernel package. Simply remove every nvidia package ("pacman -Qs nvidia" will list them)

mrhodes · 2018-06-04 22:09:14

seth wrote:

You installed "what" on your harddrive?
The nouveau module is part of the kernel package. Simply remove every nvidia package ("pacman -Qs nvidia" will list them)

I installed mesa for the nouveau module. There were no nvidia packages installed.

loqs · 2018-06-04 22:31:03

The kernel is now the same as that which worked on the install media. You could try changing the boot loader to systemd if the system is EFI or syslinux if the system is BIOS booting.
Those are the boot loaders used on the install media.
Edit:
If you chroot in is there anything in the journal ie does journalctl contain any output indicating any boots?

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mrhodes · 2018-06-05 20:24:08

loqs wrote:

The kernel is now the same as that which worked on the install media. You could try changing the boot loader to systemd if the system is EFI or syslinux if the system is BIOS booting.
Those are the boot loaders used on the install media.
Edit:
If you chroot in is there anything in the journal ie does journalctl contain any output indicating any boots?

When checking journalctl it was empty.

seth · 2018-06-05 21:32:52

Can you load the fallback image?
Do these messages help? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … bug_output
What's the output of "ls -lA /boot/*"? (assuming /boot is your mounted ESP)

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