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Killer0227

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Registered: 2014-10-29

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reinstalling /boot

Need some help. I failed with mounting and now I have blank /boot. How can I download it again without reinstalling system?
Sorry for bad English.

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

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Re: reinstalling /boot

Why does the mounting fail; with what error-message? You could repopulate /boot on your current root-fs, but it might be easier to fix the mount instead

Killer0227

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Registered: 2014-10-29

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Re: reinstalling /boot

Why does the mounting fail; with what error-message? You could repopulate /boot on your current root-fs, but it might be easier to fix the mount instead

I mean, on mounted /dev/sda1 (uefi) on /boot does not exist vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img. Where I can get it?

graysky

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Re: reinstalling /boot

I mean, on mounted /dev/sda1 (uefi) on /boot does not exist vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img. Where I can get it?

% pacman -Qo /boot/vmlinuz-linux
/boot/vmlinuz-linux is owned by linux 3.18.5-1

% pacman -Qo /boot/initramfs-linux.img 
error: No package owns /boot/initramfs-linux.img

Just reinstall the linux package and regenerate your images via `mkinitcpio -p linux` to get them back.

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Trilby

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Re: reinstalling /boot

Even better, mount sda1 to /mnt, move everything from /boot/* to /mnt/, unmoun /mnt, remount sda1 to /boot, done.

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