initramfs loads infinetely

sineptic · 2024-12-12 05:47:32

Yesterday I make full system update "pacman -Syu".
Today I try to boot, but last command in grub(as I figure it out, I don't modify anything) loads infinitely(just black screen with cursor in top right corner). I can shutdown system properly (I use VirtualBox).
As I figure I can't boot because of "initrd ...". After searching in the internet, I try to add "mkinitcpio -p linux" before loading initramfs, but got "not found".
You can see whats going on: https://youtu.be/EyCRest-k34?si=1irubX3Mu9CxIQVt
What I can do with this? (maybe regenerate in somehow).

seth · 2024-12-14 15:14:10

Try to only boot the multi-user.target (2nd linke below), in doubt along "nomodeset".
Also remove any "quiet" parameter and instead add https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … l_messages

sineptic · 2024-12-14 17:10:19

Thank you for helping me. I run with debug instead of quiet, it prints a lot of information, but than clears the screen exactly how on the video.
Please explain me please how to boot to multi-user.target.

I try to add 'init=/bin/bash' to linux and then downgrading linux package, but linux put me in emergency mode and I upgrade back to latest version. regenerate with 'mkinitcpio' I can't because there is nothing in /boot directory. Don't know should I do that or no.

seth · 2024-12-14 17:16:58

Please explain me please how to boot to multi-user.target.

seth wrote:

(2nd link below)

Your final paragraph sounds like you managed to install a kernel w/o having the /boot partition mounted and now you're booting a kernel that doesn't have the relevant modules on disk.
You might still be able to boot the fallback image, otherwise you'll have to fix this offline (ie. chroot into the system from eg. the install iso boot)

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initramfs loads infinetely

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Re: initramfs loads infinetely

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