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Woke up today to find arch wouldn't boot, wouldn't even make an attempt at booting, not even a peep.
Used an arch install usb to investigate.
In /boot, initramfs-linux.img, initramfs-linux-fallback.img, and vmlinuz-linux all have size 0! They're all empty!
That doesn't sound healthy.
I chrooted into the broken system and reinstalled linux, but this only gave me a healthy vmlinuz-linux. The other 2 are still empty.
If course this still leaves me with a kernel panic 4 seconds into boot, but at least it's talking now.
So just remind me what I have to run or reinstall to generate the initramfs?
(There's also an intel-ucode.img here which is unaffected.)
Last edited by pfdint (2020-09-12 20:11:39)
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If the system is using mkinitcpio to generate the initrd see Mkinitcpio#Manual_generation.
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/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset was also empty
I deleted that file and reinstalled linux
All is well now
No idea how any of this happened.
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