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Friauche

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Error on boot

How can I fix that:)
I used encrypt for my drive and install manually
But I remembered, when I run mkinitcpio -P, it shows the warning
“The image may not be complete” / “possibly the initramfs was not successfully generated”.
Image

system72

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Re: Error on boot

include the encryption modules in ur initramfs (systemd modules if using systemd based initramfs, easiest way to tell is that you have the systemd hook), the error message is probably due to btrfs-progs or smthin

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … mkinitcpio

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

I add encrypt before filesystem in HOOK

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Re: Error on boot

I add encrypt before filesystem in HOOK

sd-encrypt for systemd initramfs, since the busy box recovery shell is locked, it looks like u hav a systemd initramfs

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

How can I fix that?

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Re: Error on boot

by changing encrypt to sd-encrypt, if ur talking about the recovery shell its pretty much a no-op for systemd based initramfs the bsae hook provides it

there is a kernel parameter on the mkniitcpio page to make it work tho

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … _is_locked

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

I'm doing it right now and I'll send a screenshot.

Thanks

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Re: Error on boot

make sure u regenerate the initramfs after swapping out that hook, and that your boot partition is mounted where it should be

mkinitcpio -P

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

It's ok?

Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

Oh
Change to sd-encrypt?

Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

Ok I change it

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Re: Error on boot

send full screenshots pls, and since your using btrfs run this to fix the error where it says image may not be complete:

pacman -S btrfs-progs

or if not screenshots, upload the file:

curl -F file=@/etc/mkinitcpio.conf 0x0.st

and send the outputted link

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Re: Error on boot

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Re: Error on boot

so you already added it to the uncommented no # line? did you regenerate the initramfs after that?

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

When I use

pacman -S btrfs-progs

Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

so you already added it to the uncommented no # line? did you regenerate the initramfs after that?

Yeah sure

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Re: Error on boot

you can just touch that file to fix the error then, can you boot now? or is it the same timed out error as before

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

I use zstd
Should I delete the #?

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Re: Error on boot

no need since its the default, unless you want to switch to a different compression algorithm

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

Could this be related to the vconsole.conf file?

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Re: Error on boot

you can just touch that file to fix the error then, can you boot now? or is it the same timed out error as before

as said here, the timed out issue is not due to that file tho, the image generation error is non critical -- not really important

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

you can just touch that file to fix the error then, can you boot now? or is it the same timed out error as before

as said here

I didn't understand what you meant, sorry.

Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

When I created an empty file, it didn’t give an error :\

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Re: Error on boot

see if u can boot on a side note i hope ur boot partition is actually mounted

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Friauche

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Re: Error on boot

see if u can boot on a side note i hope ur boot partition is actually mounted

Is it ok?