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My arch installation booted up but froze on "loading initial ramdisk". I attempted to boot with nomodeset enabled, but that failed to, instead hanging on "welcome to arch Linux" (I'd removed the quiet flag). I added the debug flag, and the last message is "[ OK ] Finished Coldplug All udev Devices"
The kernel version should be the current latest, and is the default type. It's running on a ryzen 7 32700x, and my GPU is a GTX 960. It's got sddm and is running KDE.
Any idea on what's causing it to stop? I tried giving it input (aggressive typing) so I don't *think* it's entropy starvation.
This is also my first forum post, so apologies if I do something wrong!
Last edited by BillBennings (2024-09-09 05:49:30)
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a copy of the bootlog would be helpful to see where/why it halts
have you enabled any network? how you setup your fstab? could be timeouts waiting to fail (usually about 2min or so)
you should be able to arch-chroot from install to get the logs
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I'm using Ethernet, which is all functuonal, and the only change to my fstab that I've made is to add an entry for an NVMe games drive. I'll post my fstab and logs when I chroot.
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I'm using Ethernet, which is all functuonal
how? networkmanager? systemd-networkd? something else?
you have to give us quite a lot more information in order for us to be able to help you
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I'm honestly not sure, I assume whichever the default is, as it was plug and play. I'm also now unable to get my live boot to work, It's saying "ZSTD-compression data is corrupt"
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there's no "default" in arch - you have to explicitly chose an option how to setup your network
have you followed the official wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide or some other guide?
as for the error - although others may say otherwise: please give a brief list of your hardware - I have at least some suspicion:
cpu
motherboard
gpu
amount of ram
is this a pre-built / old office pc (like dell/lenovo, hp, etc)? if so: can you provide a serial number so we can look up its specs
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Right! I tried using uefi live boot, as well as the non-uefi boot option, neither of which worked. I continued to attempt to boot into anything, and added the kernel options "nomodeset debug loglevel=7". This gave me the BUGS: Bad page state in process swapper. That led me to https://askubuntu.com/questions/1377314 … 91051]this page, where they suggested running a memtest. I did so, and got 15000+ errors before it crashed, and my pc restarted. I moved my ram to a different slot, and it booted!
As for specs, the only ones I know are listed in my original post, and my ram amount is 16GB. And I built it myself, so I think I may need to get a new motherboard.
Thank you for your help!
Edit: I'm using systemd-networkd!
Last edited by BillBennings (2024-09-08 17:26:03)
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