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ThL117

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[SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

So, after two months I decided to try to install Arch once again. Currently I'm running Gentoo on ZFS, so the easiest way to install it was this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … stribution .
Now I have ZFS dataset with Arch, and working Arch chroot environment, but it seems pacman fails to install the kernel.
I tried both

pacman -S linux

pacman -S linux-lts

but no matter what I do, /boot directory is empty. This is clearly not a:
1. "Pacman installed everything, but you've unmounted /boot, so it *seems* empty" kind of issue. I've never mounted /boot, in a first place (Actually, I tried this later too, with ext4 /boot, but nothing happened).
2. "You forgot to update something" kind of issue. Everything else installs and works as expected. I can even see the kernel modules, when I do

pacman -Ql linux linux-lts

Should I trigger kernel installation with some command, like I do on Gentoo or anything else? Am I missing something?

Last edited by ThL117 (2021-02-10 03:10:15)

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

/boot is populated by alpm hooks provided by either mkiticpio or dracut. Which are you using?

Edit: it seems dracut doesn't have alpm hooks.

Last edited by WorMzy (2021-02-08 18:40:41)

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ThL117

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Registered: 2020-10-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

/boot is populated by alpm hooks provided by either mkiticpio or dracut. Which are you using?

Edit: it seems dracut doesn't have alpm hooks.

I use dracut. ZFS has official support for it.
If it does not have alpm hooks (Not sure what this is, will google), what should I do?

ThL117

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Registered: 2020-10-28

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

/boot is populated by alpm hooks provided by either mkiticpio or dracut. Which are you using?

Edit: it seems dracut doesn't have alpm hooks.

I use dracut. ZFS has official support for it.
If it does not have alpm hooks (Not sure what this is, will google), what should I do?

These are just some post-install hooks. Okay. So the simple answer is "copy it yourself".
E.g. from

/lib/modules/5.4.95-1-lts/vmlinuz

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

/boot is populated by alpm hooks provided by either mkiticpio or dracut. Which are you using?

Edit: it seems dracut doesn't have alpm hooks.

I use dracut. ZFS has official support for it.
If it does not have alpm hooks (Not sure what this is, will google), what should I do?

You should read the dracut wiki page.

Last edited by Scimmia (2021-02-08 19:17:42)

ThL117

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Registered: 2020-10-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel installation issue

/boot is populated by alpm hooks provided by either mkiticpio or dracut. Which are you using?

Edit: it seems dracut doesn't have alpm hooks.

I use dracut. ZFS has official support for it.
If it does not have alpm hooks (Not sure what this is, will google), what should I do?

You should read the dracut wiki page.

Just finished. My guess about "copy it yourself" was right. And I wrote a shell script that copies kernel and builds initramfs.