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#1 2019-02-25 14:31:57
- gus9182
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Error: you need to load the kernel first
Everytime I update the linux kernel I'm getting this error when I try to boot:
Loading Linux linux
Error: premature end of file /vmlinuz-linux.
Loading initial ramdisk
Error: you need to load the kernel first
Press a key to continueI checked the output of pacman -Syu and no erros were reported. Also, I checked that mkinicpio is being executed.
I found this topic (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238904) with a similar problem, I also use windows sometimes to play games (not sure if this can be related). To solve the problem I follow the solution posted in the topic, which is booting the arch linux instalation image, mounting root and boot and execute:
pacman -Syu systemd mkinitcpio linuxHowever, sometimes it doesn't work. I found out that if I mount boot, delete vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg it works.
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#2 2019-02-25 15:10:58
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
Make sure that you have enough free space on your /boot and that you properly unmount and sync the partition after a kernel update (unmount the partition after an update, explicitly run sync -f /boot or properly reboot)
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#3 2019-03-09 17:21:20
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
Make sure that you have enough free space on your /boot and that you properly unmount and sync the partition after a kernel update (unmount the partition after an update, explicitly run sync -f /boot or properly reboot)
Just did this but still got the same error 
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#4 2019-03-09 17:52:44
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
What's your output for
findmnt
df?
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#5 2019-03-09 18:00:05
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
findmnt:
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ /dev/mapper/VolGroupArch-lvolroot btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/
├─/proc proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc systemd-1 autofs rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=1324
├─/sys sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs efivarfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/security securityfs securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/unified cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/rdma cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/pids cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer
│ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory
│ │ └─/sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb cgroup cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb
│ ├─/sys/fs/pstore pstore pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/bpf bpf bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700
│ ├─/sys/kernel/debug debugfs debugfs rw,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/config configfs configfs rw,relatime
│ └─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectl rw,relatime
├─/dev dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=8140644k,nr_inodes=2035161,mode=755
│ ├─/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev
│ ├─/dev/pts devpts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
│ ├─/dev/mqueue mqueue mqueue rw,relatime
│ └─/dev/hugepages hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,relatime,pagesize=2M
├─/run run tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755
│ ├─/run/user/120 tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1630460k,mode=700,uid=120,gid=120
│ └─/run/user/1000 tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=1630460k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000
│ └─/run/user/1000/gvfs gvfsd-fuse fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000
├─/tmp tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev
├─/home /dev/mapper/VolGroupArch-lvolhome btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/
│ └─/home/gus/Data /dev/sda1 fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096
├─/boot /dev/nvme0n1p4 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro
└─/var/lib/docker/btrfs /dev/mapper/VolGroupArch-lvolroot[/var/lib/docker/btrfs]
btrfs rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/var/lib/docker/btrfsdf:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
dev 8140644 0 8140644 0% /dev
run 8152300 1424 8150876 1% /run
/dev/mapper/VolGroupArch-lvolroot 36700160 31788224 1534080 96% /
tmpfs 8152300 109844 8042456 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs 8152300 0 8152300 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 8152300 8684 8143616 1% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroupArch-lvolhome 41943040 37916700 3803572 91% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p4 1050624 98076 952548 10% /boot
/dev/sda1 358748156 206783824 151964332 58% /home/gus/Data
tmpfs 1630460 16 1630444 1% /run/user/120
tmpfs 1630460 48 1630412 1% /run/user/1000Offline
#6 2019-03-09 21:13:37
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
Check the journal for a boot w/ a failed kernel installation.
96MB is a lot for a single kernel. Do you have other kernls (lts, zen, …) installed or a parallel windows installation?
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#7 2019-03-10 14:23:44
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
...a parallel windows installation?
if you mean more than one windows installation, it won't differ much to one windows installation. it'll be ~23 MB.
in GPT, each windows installation has one single boot loader, and more than one windows installation just adds an entry to the BCD file that's a path to windows kernel, it just takes few more bytes, and the kernel will be in \windows\system32\.
in MBR, bootloader will be installed in system partition, not separate boot partition.
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#8 2019-03-10 14:30:05
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
No, I mean "parallel to archlinux". In particular since windows, even a hibernating one, could then tamper w/ the storage consistency.
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#9 2019-03-10 15:06:44
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Re: Error: you need to load the kernel first
Check the FAT filesystem for corruption, perhaps?
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