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Stargarth

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Registered: 2020-02-08

Posts: 21

[SOLVED] premature end of file /boot/vmlinuz-linux

I was updating my arch installation and system crashed in the middle of it.
Now when I try to boot into it I get following error:

Loading Linux linux ...
error: premature end of file /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first.

Any ideas how to fix it? I logged via live usb and tried those two things:
1. Force pacman to reinstall all packages with pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -
2. Recreate initial ramdisk with mkinitcpio -P

Unfortunately that didn't help. Any ideas? I can always just reinstall my system but I was wondering if I can avoid it.

Last edited by Stargarth (2020-07-17 17:50:08)

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Re: [SOLVED] premature end of file /boot/vmlinuz-linux

Is, by any chance, your /boot partition full?

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Stargarth

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Registered: 2020-02-08

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Re: [SOLVED] premature end of file /boot/vmlinuz-linux

Is, by any chance, your /boot partition full?

Nope its not.

I think I will just reinstall my system. It will be faster than searching what exactly got corrupted.
Sorry for trouble.