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LodLentils

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Registered: 2021-03-17

Posts: 2

Unofficial linux-ck kernel booting problems

HI there,

for the last weeks I got a problem with booting the linux-ck kernel on my old HP laptop.

Right after the GRUB-screen it shows

Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 3 PID: Comm: MuQSS/0 Not tainted 5.7.19-1-ck-piledriver #1
Hardware name: HP HP Notebook /8130, BIOS F.14 12/08/2015
Call trace:
  dump_stack+0x64/0x88

..and freezes.

Using the grub advanced options and booting the standard arch kernel works fine.

I already did some diging - but re-installing mkinitcpio or re-running grub-mkconfig didn't help.

My system is up-to-date (only some user space AUR packages) and I'm using the repo-ck package
and latest amd-ucode.

Not sure If this is the right forum as it might just be community repo related.

Anyhow: Any ideas what I might have missed?

Thanks!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,995

Re: Unofficial linux-ck kernel booting problems

As you are using a pre 5.10 kernel here (... why? any particular reason you are not updating that? though if you are using graysky's repo-ck you'd have to switch to the generic package as older archictecture specifics were dropped) the warning from https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zs … kinitcpio/ applies to your situation and you'd need to adjust the used compression method to something that isn't zstd

Last edited by V1del (2021-03-21 10:59:26)

LodLentils

Member

Registered: 2021-03-17

Posts: 2

Re: Unofficial linux-ck kernel booting problems

Yes, you were 100% right.
I switched to the generic linux-ck 5.11.8-2-ck and now everythying works again. Thanks!