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ISuckAtCompute

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Registered: 2025-03-01

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] LTS kernel stopped booting after update

Hi everyone,

Still a newbie with Linux related stuff. I had some issues with Nvidia drivers and tried out of curiosity to use the lts kernel to check if the same issue persists. Switched to LTS to test out and see if same issue occurs.

For the switching process, I downloaded the required firmware/headers, created the .conf file with appropriate options and set the default as LTS in bootloader.

All was fine for about a week. Decided to do run an update, ran:

pacman -Syu

Turned PC off, went to bed.

Next day, it fails to boot and I get an error message in red:

../src/boot/log.c:30@efi_assert: systemd-boot: Asseetion 'BS->AllocatePages(type, memory_type, n_pages, &addr) == EFI_SUCCESS' failed at ../src/boot/util.h:95@xmalloc_pages, halting.

Non-LTS kernel boots just fine.

My system info, just in case.

KERNEL: 6.13.8-arch1-1
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 570.133.07
RAM: 32 GB

The error suggests EFI is failing to allocate memory for the bootloader. Figured the lts kernel is more stable It's 100% my issue though, because I missed something, so open to ideas on where I have knowledge gaps.

Nvm, fixed it by simply reinstalling the linux-lts kernel.

Solution:

pacman -S linux-lts

Last edited by ISuckAtCompute (2025-04-03 11:00:19)