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#1 2024-05-10 07:48:06

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[SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Ok, it seems that or in general upgrading the system after such a long time (4 months), screwed everything up, as you can see here.

Incidentally, I can't even type anything in there, because the keyboard is powered off as soon as I make the choice in GRUB screen.

I suppose this could be due to the fact that the keyboard is a USB keyboard, but at the moment I don't have an old style keyboard at hand sad

Maybe I can fix this breakage with a live USB Arch?

Any suggestions?

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As a side note, there's windows in dual boot with Arch (that's why GRUB), but I haven't booted it for a long time, definitely not since the breakage in question.

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#2 2024-05-10 14:26:21

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

The initramfs cannot be decompressed.
Boot the install iso, mount root partition into /mnt and if you have one the boot partition into /mnt/boot, "arch-chroot /mnt" and recreate the initramfs, in doubt re-install the kernel.

Pay close attention to errors, post them in doubt.

Exit the chroot and reboot.

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#3 2024-05-10 14:44:26

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Is /boot out of space?

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#4 2024-05-10 19:36:40

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

seth wrote:

and if you have one the boot partition into /mnt/boot

How do I know if I have one?

But I've tried this anyway

seth wrote:

"arch-chroot /mnt" and recreate the initramfs

and executing

mkinitcpio -P

results in

==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
==> Using default configuratin file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> ERROR: specified kernel image does not exist: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux'
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset : 'fallback'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> ERROR: specified kernel image does not exist: '/boot/vmlinuz-linux'

Does it mean I need to reinstall the kernel?

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#5 2024-05-10 19:40:06

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Does it mean I need to reinstall the kernel?

No, but it's likely the answer to

How do I know if I have one?

which you're supposed to know because you added and configured it.
Also check /mnt/etc/fstab or "lsblk -f" (before the chroot) for what's usually mounted and the general partition layout.

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#6 2024-05-10 20:05:43

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

which you're supposed to know because you added and configured it.

Yeah, but I've installed the system in question long long ago.

Thinking about it, though, I do remember at that time I (stupidly, in hindsight) put / and /home in different partitions, giving only 50GB to the former. And I also created a swap partition. But I don't rember I did anything special for boot.

Or is it important that I have Arch in dual boot with Windows? After all, /dev/sda is divided in 7 partitions:

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 850 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4F756C60-7752-47C8-ADD4-1554015CF6BA

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048   1023999   1021952   499M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2    1024000   1228799    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda3    1228800   1261567     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4    1261568 464773119 463511552   221G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  464773120 497541119  32768000  15.6G Linux swap
/dev/sda6  497541120 871915519 374374400 178.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7  871915520 976773119 104857600    50G Linux filesystem

Anyway,

# lsblk -f                    
NAME   FSTYPE   FSVER            LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0  squashfs 4.0                                                                     0   100% /run/archiso/airootfs
sda                                                                                              
├─sda1 ntfs                      Ripristino  C4642F4B642F3F92                                    
├─sda2 vfat     FAT32                        D42F-D173                                           
├─sda3                                                                                           
├─sda4 ntfs                                  F670315C70312531                                    
├─sda5 swap     1                            210f0217-bab6-487d-b355-eb25db00faa4                
├─sda6 btrfs                                 e9ac7043-e39c-4afd-8d3f-b67af1f5d2cb                
└─sda7 btrfs                                 158d9d49-7c23-43b4-bad5-8cf56b19a96b   16.9G    65% /mnt
sdb                                                                                              
└─sdb1 ntfs                      DATA        7ED342BC43CA67AB                                    
sdc    iso9660  Joliet Extension ARCH_202405 2024-05-01-17-04-31-00                              
├─sdc1 iso9660  Joliet Extension ARCH_202405 2024-05-01-17-04-31-00                              
└─sdc2 vfat     FAT16            ARCHISO_EFI 6665-2677
# cat /mnt/etc/fstab          
# /dev/sda7                       
UUID=158d9d49-7c23-43b4-bad5-8cf56b19a96b	/         	btrfs     	rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/	0 0

# /dev/sda2
UUID=D42F-D173      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/sda6
UUID=e9ac7043-e39c-4afd-8d3f-b67af1f5d2cb	/home     	btrfs     	rw,relatime,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=5,subvol=/	0 0

# /dev/sda5
UUID=210f0217-bab6-487d-b355-eb25db00faa4	none      	swap      	defaults,pri=-2	0 0

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=7ED342BC43CA67AB	/mnt/toshiba	ntfs      	uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,async,auto,rw	0 0

# /dev/sda4
UUID=F670315C70312531	/mnt/winzoz	ntfs      	uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,sync,auto,rw	0 0

# For the fucking Dropbox (see https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-keep-using-dropbox-even-if-you-dont-use-unencrypted-ext4-workaround/)
#/home/enrico/.dropbox/storage	/home/enrico/Dropbox	ext4	defaults,user_xattr,loop	0	0

Do I need to mount /dev/sda2 into /mnt/boot?

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#7 2024-05-10 20:14:44

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Enrico1989 wrote:

Do I need to mount /dev/sda2 into /mnt/boot?

Gave this a try, result:

# mkinitcpio -P
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: '6.8.9-arch1-2'
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [microcode]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [kms]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhci_pci'
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'
  -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful
zstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : No space left on device 
==> ERROR: Initcpio image generation FAILED: 'zstd' reported an error
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: '6.8.9-arch1-2'
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [microcode]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [kms]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'ast'
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'xhci_pci'
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'aic94xx'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'bfa'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qed'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla1280'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'qla2xxx'
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'wd719x'
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img'
cat: write error: No space left on device
bsdtar: Write error
bsdtar: Write error
==> ERROR: Early uncompressed CPIO image generation FAILED: 'sort' reported an error

And the 

cat: write error: No space left on device

makes me think of

Scimmia wrote:

Is /boot out of space?

...

But I haven't created /dev/sda2 myself. It came out of installing Windows, before installing Arch beside it hmm

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#8 2024-05-10 20:18:01

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Did you read it?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p2170438

df -h

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=291900

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#9 2024-05-10 20:22:05

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

seth wrote:
df -h

I suppose you mean before arch-chroot /mnt. If so,

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev              16G     0   16G   0% /dev
run              16G   15M   16G   1% /run
efivarfs        128K   18K  106K  15% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
copytoram        24G  789M   23G   4% /run/archiso/copytoram
cowspace        256M  1.1M  255M   1% /run/archiso/cowspace
/dev/loop0      789M  789M     0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs
airootfs        256M  1.1M  255M   1% /
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs            16G     0   16G   0% /tmp
tmpfs            16G  2.6M   16G   1% /etc/pacman.d/gnupg
tmpfs           3.2G  8.0K  3.2G   1% /run/user/0
/dev/sda7        50G   33G   17G  66% /mnt
/dev/sda2        96M   96M  3.0K 100% /mnt/boot

where the 100% on the last line is the bad part, right?

I'm reading the other link of yours. Trying to understand I think I'm not really understanding much sad But yes, I have a 1080ti.

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#10 2024-05-10 20:39:14

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

96MB is incredibly small, esp. for a dual booting system.
Disable the kms hook, add the i915 module manually and disable the fallback image generation in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset and remove /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img - the latter will safe a lot of space but you want to make sure to have some live distro (grml, install iso) around in case you cannot boot the regular initramfs anymore.

Edit: alternatively setup the system to boot from the root partition.

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#11 2024-05-10 21:02:32

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

seth wrote:

96MB is incredibly small, esp. for a dual booting system.

I'm pretty sure I'm not responsible for that sad I remeber that's what the windows installation left me with.

seth wrote:

Disable the kms hook

This means removing kms from the this line

HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

right?

seth wrote:

add the i915 module manually

Does this mean I just add i915 in that line?

seth wrote:

disable the fallback image generation in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset

That file contains

# mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package on archiso

PRESETS=('archiso')

ALL_kver='/boot/vmlinuz-linux'
archiso_config='/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/archiso.conf'

archiso_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img"

so what do I need to do?

seth wrote:

remove /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img

You mean "rm that-file"? By the way, I see this only exists in the arch-chroot /mnt, not before, so do you mean I also need to do the previous steps after doing arch-chroot /mnt?

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#12 2024-05-10 21:04:34

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

seth wrote:

Edit: alternatively setup the system to boot from the root partition.

Alternative to what? All theprevious part in that message? How do I do that? And is it compatible with the dual boot I have in place?

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#13 2024-05-10 21:04:55

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

right?

Right

Does this mean I just add i915 in that line?

No, MODULES

That file contains

Not the one on the iso, /mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset in that case.

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#14 2024-05-10 21:17:40

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

It worked, thanks!

But other than letting that partition so small (I wouldn't have known how to avoid that small size, given I haven't chosen it), have I done something wrong to end up with a broken system?

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#15 2024-05-10 21:24:51

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

No, the problem is the udnerdimensioned boot partition - you could arguebly have configured the system to boot from the root partition and might still want to opt for this.

Unmounting the boot partition, reinstalling the kernel and re-running grub-install and grub-mkconfig should™ do.
Is sda2 also the ESP??

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#16 2024-05-13 17:00:28

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

seth wrote:

Is sda2 also the ESP??


I woudl assume so:

Enrico1989 wrote:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 850 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4F756C60-7752-47C8-ADD4-1554015CF6BA

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048   1023999   1021952   499M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2    1024000   1228799    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda3    1228800   1261567     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4    1261568 464773119 463511552   221G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  464773120 497541119  32768000  15.6G Linux swap
/dev/sda6  497541120 871915519 374374400 178.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7  871915520 976773119 104857600    50G Linux filesystem

Why?

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#17 2024-05-13 17:06:48

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't boot after upgrade

Because 100M then is really small and I'm somewhat surprised that you didn't run into space issues ahead.

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