[GTALUG] New Build Computer?

[Russell Reiter]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:44 AM Peter King via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> A measure of success!
>
> Instead of trying to boot from the NVMe drive, I updated the SATA SSD drive
> and set it up to boot EFI-stub.  It booted right up, updated things, and
> generally settled into the new hardware with only minor problems.  So far,
> then, it seems clear that I had at least two problems: (a) disabling Secure
> Boot, and (b) some undiagnosed problems about booting from the NVMe
> drive.
>
> While (a) might have been anticipated, (b) was a surprise, and I still
> don't know why the NVMe drive is problematic.  But I can solve that
> problem
> later, with the help of all the suggestions and advice people have offered.
> Once I iron out the minor problems (no network), I'll then try booting from
> the NVMe drive via a bootloader -- rEFInd and GRUB2 have been proposed --
> to see if that helps.  But having a working system makes it much less
> urgent.
>

If you are currently using GRUB apparently a package update has blundered
an initramfs hook.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arch-new-kernel-packages-and-mkinitcpio-hooks/110960

According to this post, that issue is solvable.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250674

In a nutshell ...

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo update-grub


>
> Thanks again to one and all!
>
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