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AstraUrtyp

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Registered: 2025-06-14

Posts: 6

Broken bootloader after installing LTS kernel

Error: https://imgur.com/a/Iwuq6OH

Hello,

I am using a dual boot MacBook pro 2015, but I only got the macos partition for firmware updates because the wiki suggested it.

Every time I boot into a tty I get some error messages which I can't recall because I fucked the bootloader as seen in the photo.

To fix these error messages I wanted to switch to the LTS kernel. I just used pacman to install `linux-lts linux-headers-lts`. I didnt do anything else and rebooted into this message. I am not sure which bootloader I am usually actually but I think it's the one from my Mac which should be refind.

How can I fix this?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,724

Re: Broken bootloader after installing LTS kernel

You didn't configure your bootloader correctly. It's loading the wrong initramfs.

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

Posts: 2,105

Re: Broken bootloader after installing LTS kernel

just installing another kernel usually does nothing unless the bootloader is properly configured to auto-discover it
so usually you have to regenerate a new config or create one yourself