Winston Smith <winstonsmith@vfemail.net> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:32:01 +0000, winstonsmith wrote:
hi folks i could use a little push in the right direction.
ok never mind i got it sorted.
seems my mkinitcpio.conf got replaced with a new version which did not include the encrypt or lvm2 hooks that my setup requires.
isn't that sort of thing supposed to be handled by pacnew files? i suppose there is a chance that i blindly replaced the conf file myself with the pacnew, whatever i coulda been tired...but i am usually careful about these things.
anyway i fixed it by booting an arch install iso, opening my luks encrypted device, mounted the partitions, chroot'ed into root and tweaked mkinitcpio.conf, then ran:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
all sorted, thought i'd follow up for someone else's benefit in case it wasn't my error that replaced mkinitcpio.conf in the first place.
I think it was not your error: $ pacman -Qii mkinitcpio | tail -3 Backup Files : UNMODIFIED /etc/mkinitcpio.conf In general, one might want to create a customized /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ones.conf, and set /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset to use it. I hope I didn't forgot something important here. -- u34
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