ndowens
December 17, 2024, 7:00pm
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I changed to a nvme drive, so I reinstalled cachyos. I used the defaults of the install on partition section and FS types, except changed / to be btrfs. I noticed after the initial install when I updated, the kernel image and initrd disappeared from /boot. Also tried installing linux-cachyos-bore kernel and it does not get installed to /boot nor does a mkinitcpio preset gets installed. What would cause this issue? My ESP isn’t full btw
Edit: Update, linux-zen when I tested installing it, it showed up in my ESP partition
naim
December 18, 2024, 8:50am
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Which boot manager are you using? Also show me your partition table.
ndowens
December 18, 2024, 11:20pm
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Was using systemd-boot but went back to grub as I’m use to it.termbin.com/ek916
Parted: termbin.com/hzw3
Also I figured out linux-zen would install in /boot but not linux-cachyos{-bore}
naim
December 19, 2024, 7:45am
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Can you give me a long listing of /boot? ls -la /boot and ls -la /boot/efi.
ndowens
December 19, 2024, 9:52am
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ls -la /boot
The images above for linux-cachyos is the ones I copied from the /lib/modules/linux-cachyos… dir
ls -la /boot/efi
naim
December 19, 2024, 5:22pm
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I think for one thing, your partition table is wrong for GRUB. The partition where it keeps the kernel images must be separate from the EFI partition, which is your current boot. Whether it’s the reason for the underlying issue is unclear. Can you give me the install log of the bore kernel?
sudo pacman -S linux-cachyos-bore <and-others>
Bedna
December 19, 2024, 6:04pm
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That is not true:
Model: KINGSTON SNV2S1000G (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 2150MB 2147MB fat32 boot, esp
2 2150MB 1000GB 998GB btrfs root
GPT and esp boot in fat32, about 2G size.
It SHOULD be mounted at /boot or /efi not at the discouraged /boot/efiEFI system partition - ArchWiki
As for grub, it works perfectly fine to install with the normal flags that will install it inside /boot, but the user have to make sure that boot is ALWAYS mounted ofc.GRUB - ArchWiki
Output of /etc/fstab and logs from running sudo mkinitcpio -P would be very useful.
ndowens
December 19, 2024, 8:54pm
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Origionally I was using systemd-boot and the partition table setup was done by the installer.
linux-cachyos-bore-6.12.5-1-x86_64_v3 143.1 MiB 6.06 MiB/s 00:24 [----------------------------------------] 100%
ndowens
December 19, 2024, 8:57pm
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Switched to dracut, but here is fstab https://termbin.com/qfi0
Edit: ATM it seems to be working fine now, the only change I’ve made was to switch to dracut
Bedna
December 20, 2024, 2:50am
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Your choice of bootloader does not change how mkinitcpio works, so it should have changed nothing. Something else must have changed as well.mkinitcpio that is corrupted somehow.
One thought:
# /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID=18C6-D88C /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2
errors=remount-ro
You did not provide the logs from the failing sudo mkinitcpio -P, it would have been very useful to see what errors it threw when not able to write, or if it writes them to wrong location or smthn.
dracut[I]: *** Creating image file ‘/boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img’ ***
dracut[I]: Using auto-determined compression method ‘zstd’
dracut[I]: *** Creating initramfs image file ‘/boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img’ done ***
But I guess if it suddenly “just works” and you are fine with that, nothing more to do I guess.
Edit
dracut-install: Failed to find module ‘nvidia_drm’
dracut[E]: FAILED: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/dracut.3k0iqg/initramfs --kerneldir /lib/modules/6.12.5-zen1-1-zen/ -m nvidia_drm
ndowens
December 20, 2024, 7:12am
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Removed the remount part, and changed the add_modules in dracut for nvidia