Hanging at "Loading initial ramdisk" after full system update 03 July 2024, 19:15:13 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hope this is something that can be fixed by changing bios settings or something else that doesn't require me to have an outdated kernel, especially with a rolling release distro.I wasn't sure what other info would be relevant for this issue but let me know if you want to know anything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 – 03 July 2024, 22:25:29 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 – 04 July 2024, 13:39:37 Quote from: nous – on 03 July 2024, 22:25:29Install 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 – 08 July 2024, 23:28:17 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.