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

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote:
> On 01/12/2013 10:50 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There's nothing wrong with the kernel. You've probably been ignoring the
> > warnings from pacman about file being newer than what's in the repos.
> > file-5.12 was removed from [testing] because it was misidentifying
> > kernel images, which broke mkinitcpio.
> > 
> > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33373
> > 
> > This is fixed for good in mkinitcpio, as the next version won't rely on
> > file at all.
> > 
> 
>   file-5.12:
> 	spot on - and sorry - downgraded to 5.11
> 
>   linux-3.7.2:
> 	Does this explain why 3.7.2 doesn't boot and 3.7.1 does? O
>         Or is something still amiss with 3.7.2 kernel?
> 
> 	Thanks ...
> 
> gene

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.