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mvrc

Member

Registered: 2021-01-08

Posts: 1

Won't boot past "initial ramdisk" stage

Hello all!

I've used Arch for about 2 months now without any problems up until today. Arch won't boot past

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

Not sure what caused it to happen, although I do think that updating the system could be the potential key since I ran

yay -Syu

last night before shutting off my system.

Anyways, I read online and saw that a couple of people mentioned booting into the ISO and chrooting and then running

mkinitcpio -P

Seems like my BIOS won't detect my USB either...

Any help?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,029

Re: Won't boot past "initial ramdisk" stage

Please post the pacman.log (/var/log/pacman.log) for the update.  See the tip box from pastebin to post the output from the console of the live media.
Is more output produced if you remove the quiet boot parameter and add ignore_loglevel ?

Last edited by loqs (2021-01-09 00:06:31)