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I have a problem with my system: As of two days ago, my archlinux kernel boots erratically. Sometimes it works, most frequently it does not. When it fails, I only see "Loading initial ramdisk ..." and nothing happens. There is no apparent difference between booting the normal linux kernel, the linux-lts kernel or their fallback or recovery images. Removing the "quiet" option changes nothing. Removing the intel-ucode before the kernel does not do anything either.
GRUB appears to be fine, the dual boot Windows 7 shows no symptoms.
What can I do to track down this problem?
Any hint is appreciated!
Last edited by adoa (2018-02-16 00:05:40)
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You could try using an older kernel (e.g. downgrade your kernel via
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/linux-...) to track down if it's a kernel issue.
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After a downgrade to 4.14.11 and a full pacman -Syu, I am able to boot the current kernel 4.14.15-1.0 as well as the linux-lts-4.9.78-1.0. The latter did not work the other day.
I have no idea what was broken. But it is fixed. Thx!
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Hmm, maybe something was broken within the packages that has been fixed by now? Purely out of curiosity: Can you examine what package versions are installed now that have not been installed when it was broken? (look into /var/log/pacman.log)
Cheers,
deep42thought
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