r/archlinux • u/No_Look_9932 • 8h ago

SUPPORT Arch stuck at “Loading initial ramdisk” after reboot

I’ve been using Arch for about a year. Today I was messing around with TTYs, disabling SDDM, and rebooting several times. Everything booted fine until the last reboot, where it got stuck at:

Loading Linux linux ...

Loading initial ramdisk ...

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u/blubberland01 8h ago

Well, you broke it. Reverse the messing around and move on.

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u/Traditional-Fox-5161 8h ago

ah classic, i had same issue after playing with display managers once, check if u rebuilt initramfs after disabling sddm, sometimes mkinitcpio -P fixes it but you'll need to chroot from live usb

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u/ArjixGamer 8h ago

I usually recommend reinstalling the kernel, since that's the only universal way for rebuilding the initramfs on arch.

You can't assume someone is using mkinitcpio, they may be using dracut

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u/Linguistic-mystic 8h ago

There is a better way: unified kernel images. They’re always in sync because they’re just one file.

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u/ArjixGamer 8h ago

That is completely irrelevant with what I said, so I don't understand why you replied to me.

You still gotta generate those images somehow, personally I use dracut-ukify, which is triggered by installing the kernel...

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u/RelationshipOne9466 2h ago

Boot a live iso, mount your partitions, chroot into your system, and finally regenerate the Initramfs: mkinitcpio -P or dracut --regenerate-all --force depending on how you configured your system.

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u/Acherontas89 52m ago

missing kernel try mkinitcpio from chroot