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michaels

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Registered: 2012-10-17

Posts: 20

Possible missing module(s) in initramfs?

Hello everyone,

for several months now I have the problem that my initramfs fails to boot. First, this only occured occasionally, but now it seems to be a constant issue. After selecting the image in GRUB, the screen shows just two lines telling me that initramfs is being loaded and then freezes. The fallback image works so far without any problems. This brought me to the assumption that autodetect hook (since this is the only difference between normal and fallback initramfs, as archwiki states) misses some module which is needed, or that there is an issue with the loading sequence of the modules. Unfortunately, I don't know how to track this properly... Maybe you can help me?

Here's the relevant content of my mkinitcpio.conf, pretty much default values except for the MODULES and COMPRESSION part:

MODULES="nouveau"

BINARIES=""

FILES=""

HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck"

COMPRESSION="lz4"

#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 1,986

Re: Possible missing module(s) in initramfs?

Nouveau shouldn't make it freeze right off the bat, first thing I would try is to change the compressor back to the default then if that doesn't work remove nouveau from your modules.  Regenerate the initramfs each time of course.

michaels

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Registered: 2012-10-17

Posts: 20

Re: Possible missing module(s) in initramfs?

Don't think this is the issue because the fallback initramfs is just the same concerning these two... But I can still try, of course :-)