As Subject states, I did my regular update of my Artix-runnit system which I have done every week for the past year. This time however when I restarted my Thinkpad, I got stuck in the boot-up process at:
Loading initial ramdisk ...
I followed some guides I found for arch to solve similar issues (and adaped them to my Artix-runnit system)
Here is what I have done so far with no success:
Boot into live USB Stick
Login:
artix login: artix
Password: artix
Change to root
$ sudo -i
Mount drives
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/ROOT /mnt
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/HOME /mnt/home
# mount /dev/disk/by-label/BOOT /mnt/boot
Check network connectivity
# ping -c 4 8.8.8.8
Chroot into new system
# artix-chroot /mnt
Reinstall linux
# pacman -Syu linux linux-firmware intel-ucode
I get one error stating that this is read only:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload
Re-do Grub setup
# pacman -Syu grub
# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
# mkinitcpio -p linux
# update-grub
# exit (exit chroot)
# reboot now
When I reboot I get stuck on “
Loading initial ramdisk …
”
Any Ideas where to go from here? And thanks in advance for your help!
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration
Update the bootloader and the kernel initramfs
New mkinitcpio and grub were installed, so you better reconfigure them. Copy the new /etc/mkinitcpio.pacnew over to /etc/mkinitcpio, /etc/default/grub.pacnew to /etc/default/grub, recreate the kernel's initramfs with mkinitcpio and reinstall grub. If you had committed any changes to the original files (i.e. resume hook in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf or a custom kernel cmdline parameter in grub), you should merge them now.
Recreate your initramfs and grub configuration file
mkinitcpio -p linux (the default Artix kernel) or mkinitcpio -P (all installed kernels)
update-grub
OK so after doing the above steps and finishing with
# mkinitcpio -p linux (no output)
# update-grub (found vm-linux)
# exit
# reboot now
I get get a different hang:
Booting 'Artix Linux'
Loading Linux linux ...
So still cannot boot into my system but different boot error??
There is no
grub-update command. The command is
update-grub.
This is something to do with kernel and GRUB, not systemd, so not specific to Artix.
I have Artix updated daily on both my desktop and laptop, and had no problems lately.
I'm willing to bet this has to do with kernel only. The
/sys/devices... line is indicative of a problem with kernel. Post your
/var/log/dmesg/current and
/var/log/messages.log.
I do not have the other 2 requested logs, but attached is my /var/log/dmesg.log
100% agree. This is the first time I've had an issue in the past year. Not sure if I did something to mess things up or what. I'd rather not re-install if I can avoid it.
I found this:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46591
https://askubuntu.com/questions/984970/firmware-bug-tsc-deadline-disabled-due-to-errata-what-should-i-do-about-thi
https://askubuntu.com/a/984971
In Artix, the package is called
intel-ucode.
in ARCH is called intel-ucode too.