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Enrico1989

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Problem booting - possibly font related

May 16 09:55:14 archlinux systemd-vconsole-setup[228]: setfont: ERROR setfont.c:435 kfont_load_font: Unable to find file: ter-d24b.psf.gz

You probably need to regenerate the initramfs and or explicitly add to font there (FILES array)

Should I do

# mkinitcpio -P

as per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio?

seth

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

I might have forgotten the twice on windows. Anyway, I've just done as you said:

Did you check whether it *was* disabled?

"mkinitcpio -P" will regenerate the initramfs, whether you also need to explicitly have to add to the FILES array w/ the systemd hooks idk (though it rings some bell, I think there was a thread about that)

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Enrico1989

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

I might have forgotten the twice on windows. Anyway, I've just done as you said:

Did you check whether it *was* disabled?

Nope, I forgot

explicitly have to add to the FILES array w/ the systemd hooks

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio is still the page I should go through to understand what this actually means, right?

(though it rings some bell, I think there was a thread about that)

Searching for keywords initramfs files array systemd font gives 6 pages of results

seth

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

We don't need to find that thread - we'll just figure it again

the page I should go through

Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … _and_FILES

lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep ter-d24b

will hint whether the font is currently in the initramfs

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Enrico1989

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

# mkinitcpio -P

Done.

the page I should go through

Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinit … _and_FILES

Mmmm.  Ehm, what should I do?

lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep ter-d24b

will hint whether the font is currently in the initramfs

For now this errors:

==> ERROR: Unable to read file: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'

seth

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

For the lts or zen kernels the initramfs would have a slightly different name.
If you need to explicitly add the font you need to add the path of the file to the FILES array.

Since this has nothing to do w/ the original problem, consider to https://bbs.archlinux.org/misc.php?report=2298381 post #4 and the tail to be split off into a specialized thread.

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Re: Problem booting - possibly font related

Moderator Note
Split off from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313570 as requested by OP.

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