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snazza

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Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 11

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

Please try adding "vmd" instead of "ahci" and let me know: you won't break anything or lose your data.
In the worst case won't simply fix your current problem

It's the Intel Volume Management Device Driver.
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/VMD.html
which is enabled by default in many arch-based distros.

I'm pretty sure this is due a bug related to latest kernel
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77715

Some other people seems to have fixed this using libata.force=nolpm kernel parameter, so maybe you should try also this workaround.

rbaks

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Registered: 2023-03-06

Posts: 12

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

@snazza the vmd fix didn’t work, though I was finally able to boot when downgrading to kernel 6.1.12-arch1-1 specifically, I already tried this solution as suggested but with the LTS version which is ironically some versions higher (6.1.15).
Lessons learned, always plan a backup/restore solution on rolling release distros

Last edited by rbaks (2023-03-08 13:18:58)

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

Hi!
I'm using also an AMD based system and encountered the same issue after an upgrade. Reverting to systemd, systemd-libs and systemd-sysvcompat 253.1-1 fixed it for me.
I don't know why and the changes to the package seem small.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77780

Last edited by hoschi (2023-03-08 15:36:27)

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

@rbaks:
Check if you have an kind of hardware error during the mkinitcpio-hook in you /var/log/pacman.log

[2023-03-08T13:41:47+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
[2023-03-08T13:41:47+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 6.2.2-arch1-1
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] sort: cannot read: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:07:00.4/usb3/3-1/3-1.2/3-1.2.2/3-1.2.2:1.2/ep_04/uevent': No such file or directory
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] modprobe: ERROR: missing parameters. See -h.
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keymap]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 6.2.2-arch1-1
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base]
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev]
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2023-03-08T13:41:49+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
[2023-03-08T13:41:50+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [keymap]
[2023-03-08T13:41:50+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf]
[2023-03-08T13:41:50+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block]
[2023-03-08T13:41:51+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
[2023-03-08T13:41:51+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2023-03-08T13:41:52+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
[2023-03-08T13:41:52+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
[2023-03-08T13:41:52+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
[2023-03-08T13:41:52+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
[2023-03-08T13:41:53+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2023-03-08T13:41:54+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [fsck]
[2023-03-08T13:41:55+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2023-03-08T13:41:55+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2023-03-08T13:41:56+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful

Caused here by my docking-station. When the laptop is not docked, image creation succeeds.
That is nasty.

regulator

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Registered: 2020-01-15

Posts: 22

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

Caused here by my docking-station. When the laptop is not docked, image creation succeeds.

I have the same issue, I suspect it's my screen's built-in USB hub..

Although manually running mkinitcpio -p seems to work? its only the pacman one that doesn't, not sure what they do differently..

Did you have time to open the issue on mkinitcpio gitlab?

log snippet:

sort: cannot read: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:0c:00.3/usb1/1-2/1-2.4/1-2.4:1.1/ep_81/uevent': No such file or directory
modprobe: ERROR: missing parameters. See -h.

sidicer

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Registered: 2023-03-13

Posts: 1

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

@rbaks:
Check if you have an kind of hardware error during the mkinitcpio-hook in you /var/log/pacman.log

[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] sort: cannot read: '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:07:00.4/usb3/3-1/3-1.2/3-1.2.2/3-1.2.2:1.2/ep_04/uevent': No such file or directory
[2023-03-08T13:41:48+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] modprobe: ERROR: missing parameters. See -h.

Caused here by my docking-station. When the laptop is not docked, image creation succeeds.
That is nasty.

Can confirm same issue happened to me while running pacman -Syu with a Lenovo Docking station.
Had to chroot from live usb and re-run mkinitpcio -p linux which resolved the issue.

stanczew

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Registered: 2021-03-02

Posts: 63

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

Issue reported to mkinitcpio repository:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/177

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Re: root device not found. Skipping fsck

Thanks for reporting