[arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Sat Jan 12 23:28:46 EST 2013


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:19:17PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote:
> On 01/12/2013 11:09 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> 
> >
> >mkinitcpio didn't generate a valid initramfs for the kernel... you can't
> >boot an ARCH kernel without an initramfs. Nothing is wrong with 3.7.2.
> >
> 
>  Was hoping you'd say that :-) Tho now am a tiny bit puzzled that
> the initramfs created when I installed 3.7.1 actually booted ...
> 
>  I will re-install 3.7.2 and try again!
> 
>  thank you for your help.
> 
> gene

Because mkinitcpio never created anything on upgrade or downgrade. The
initramfs image in /boot remained consistent with your 3.7.1 kernel.


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