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Hanging at "Loading initial ramdisk" after full system update

I recently did a full system update on an Artix (runit) system I've not used for 3 months. Now it is hanging on "Loading initial ramdisk" every time I boot into the system (so grub works fine). My current kernel is 6.9.7-hardened1-1-hardened (package is linux-hardened).

I've tried mkinitcpio -P and also grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, no difference. I've also tried using the fallback initramfs which also doesn't work. The system was booting fine before the update.

I don't think it's specific to linux-hardened because the 30/06/2024 base runit Artix image also has the same problem for me on this machine. I tried the official iso image (also base runit) from 13/08/2023 and it boots fine—I've been using this live iso to chroot and run the aforementioned commands.

Interestingly, I plugged the 30/06/2024 live usb into my laptop and it does boot and work fine. So it must be specific to this machine. I think it might have something to do with the fact that after not plugging this machine in for 3 months, the bios ended up being reset, so it might have something to do with a bios option? My mobo is Gigabyte GA-AB350-GAMING 3. I've had a look through the bios options and I didn't see anything that stood out to me, but any suggestions as to what options I could play around with I'm open to.

I could also try downgrading the kernel but I'm not sure if that would have repercussions with all my other packages being up to date? I'll try just downgrading linux-hardened if nothing else works, but given that the issue also happens with the up to date linux kernel for the 30/06 live iso, I hope this is something that can be fixed by changing bios settings or something else that doesn't require me to have an outdated kernel, especially with a rolling release distro.

I wasn't sure what other info would be relevant for this issue but let me know if you want to know anything else about my system. Thanks in advance!

Re: Hanging at "Loading initial ramdisk" after full system update

Reply #1 –
Install linux-lts and re-create grub.cfg. See if it boots with it to rule out hardened.

Re: Hanging at "Loading initial ramdisk" after full system update

Reply #2 –
Quote from: nous – on
Install linux-lts and re-create grub.cfg. See if it boots with it to rule out hardened.
Good news, `linux-lts` boots fine. Given that the live image from 30/06 also has the same issue (which I assume uses `linux`?), it sounds like my machine is having some trouble with the latest linux versions. I wonder if this is an issue on my end which can be resolved with changing eg bios settings or something?
 

Re: Hanging at "Loading initial ramdisk" after full system update

Reply #3 –
Coincidentally, I happened to upgrade my CPU today from a Ryzen 3 1300X to a Ryzen 5 5600X, and the problem is fixed. Given everything above, I would guess that there's been some issue introduced between Linux 6.6.36 (the version linux-lts was on) and Linux 6.9.x affecting specifically Ryzen 3 1300Xs? I really don't want to keep swapping my CPUs to try further diagnose the issue, but I'll see about making a bug report to see if anyone else wants to have a look at it, and to see if this is affecting other people with Ryzen 3 1300Xs.