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#1 2018-02-10 16:41:41

adoa
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Registered: 2018-02-10
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[SOLVED] Kernel booting erratically

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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#2 2018-02-11 21:22:46

deep42thought
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From: Jena, Germany
Registered: 2017-06-17
Posts: 617

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel booting erratically

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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#3 2018-02-16 00:05:05

adoa
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Registered: 2018-02-10
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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel booting erratically

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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#4 2018-02-16 06:23:35

deep42thought
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From: Jena, Germany
Registered: 2017-06-17
Posts: 617

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel booting erratically

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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