[arch-general] busted system after update

[Winston Smith]

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.

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