Arch Linux

prnflks

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Registered: 2023-07-27

Posts: 1

Boot stuck at "loading initial ramdisk" after kernel upgrade

Hello y'all,

today I upgraded my kernel from Linux 6.1.27.hardened1-2 -> 6.4.6.hardened1-1.
After rebooting I got stuck at "loading initial ramdisk". After searching around a bit I found out that adding nomodeset to the grub config works fine. So I looked up what nomodeset does and it said something about not loading video drivers 'til X is loaded and I remembered that I activated an Option in my BIOS for Multi-Monitor setups a few months ago. After deactivating this option my Arch is booting fine without the nomodeset parameter. I have no idea why. The previous kernel worked fine with Multi-Monitor activated. Maybe you are able to tell me whats going on here? Any help would be appreciated.

Systeminfo:

prnflks@nibble 
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Kernel: 6.4.6-hardened1-1-hardened 
Uptime: 1 hour, 45 mins 
Packages: 1155 (pacman) 
Shell: bash 5.1.16 
Resolution: 1920x1080 
WM: i3 
Terminal: urxvt 
CPU: Intel i7-4790K (8) @ 4.400GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 
Memory: 2197MiB / 7892MiB 

Journals:
Journal without quite and nomodeset parameter; loglevel=7; Multi-Monitor enabled (Getting stuck)

Journal with nomodeset and loglevel=7; Multi-Monitor enabled (working)

Journal no changes to grub config; Multi-Monitor disabled (working)