[SOLVED] MKINITCPIO not including hooks

seth · 2025-05-20 05:29:06

Don't try to use sda4/ /dev/mapper/tmp as /tmp and use a normal tmpfs for the test?
I don't really understand your question - what part of that do you struggle with?
Did you not setup fstab or a systemd mount this way? Then how is it deliberate?

onthegrid007 · 2025-05-20 16:35:50

I see just remove the fstab line and try rebooting, got it ill try that.

onthegrid007 · 2025-05-20 16:49:31

Holy **** everything works. Ok GDM loaded and i can log in now, Ill just make a script i have to run on startup to handle the random unlocking of the temp partition to a crypt disk, handle mk.ext4 command and the mounting process, thats easy stuff. But I have this issue currently with GRUB where it launches grub bot its a blank terminal and I have to manually type the following to get it to boot:
ls # to find the right partition
linux (hd2,gpt2)/vmzlinu[TAB] root=/dev/mapper/crypt1 rw
initrd (hd2,gpt2)/initramfs[TAB].img
boot

I see the automated script at /boot/grub/grub.cfg where it does this all for me bit it never runs is there a reason for this?
I have a suspicion that because I formatted the boot partition to ext4 that its having some sort of startup automation error but that thought goes away when I am able to boot manually which means the fs isn't the issue.
Any thoughts?

seth · 2025-05-20 20:26:46

You mean you lack the boot menu?
Check your grub.cfg, Make sure it sets up a menu and b/c of the context: make sure you ran grub-install on the relevant device and the /boot partition is actually accessible to grub.
I assume you also encrypt the boot partition??

onthegrid007 · 2025-05-20 20:28:30

Boot is not encrypted.
I can run the commands I mentioned before in the grub terminal to get it to boot normally.
There is a populated grub.cfg at /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
It contains a 10_linux option in the file.
The file is not being executed for some reason.

seth · 2025-05-20 20:33:44

sudo ls -lR /boot
sudo cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
findmnt -T /boot
cat /proc/cmdline

onthegrid007 · 2025-05-20 20:43:56

My mistake, the file being created was grub.conf not grub.cfg, it works now, thanks for all your help. I am doing a blackarch-linux install on a laptop with a rtx 4080 this week so I will probably be back with more questions in another form post.

WorMzy · 2025-05-20 20:46:11

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