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Recon

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Registered: 2025-11-29

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Initrd not found

Hello, I'm new to the arch community, I apologise for any mistakes, I tried installing Intel drivers after rebooting I wasn't able to boot into arch, I kept getting this error "initrd not found"

Here are my partitions

sda
|-sda1 (EFI)
|-sda2 (root)
|-sda3 (home)

sdb
|-sdb1 (boot)
|-sdb2

im using the systemd to boot into arch

From what I found in the /boot folder all the kernels are missing including the fallback

I tried mounting EFI and root from archiso into /mnt/boot and /mnt and accessing them with chroot then installed the kernels with pacman -Suy linux but didn't help

I tried again by mounting /boot but still the same issue

any help will be appreciated thanks !

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,336

Re: Initrd not found

What "intel-drivers"?

Here are my partitions

I assume this is from some live distro or the install iso?
I'd assume one of those is the install iso?

lsblk -f

I tried mounting EFI and root from archiso into /mnt/boot and /mnt

The narration has the wrong order, you need to mount /dev/sdbX /mnt first and then mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot (provided you're using sdX1 as root partition)
(nb. that the sda/sdb order is NOT necessarily stable between boots, you'll have to check what's the relevant drive first!)

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