Hello, the last couple of kernel updates made my kernels stop booting. Happened with 5.18 and 5.18 zen first… I could boot into to 5.15 lts still… Today that kernel was updated and now I can’t boot into it either…this is the error i get.
I booted into live usb. Used chroot to reinstall kernels again but same error persists after reboot. Please help.
It may be related to a similar problem I’m having booting in VM. Can you check if it will boot by adding mitigations=off in the grub command line? When you boot and at the grub menu press e for edit and add this in the grub command line. Then press F10 to continue booting. This is temporary to just try to see what happens.
Okay… so just to be aware this is bypassing the spectre v2 security vulnerabilities but it does answer some questions i had. Maybe @jonathon could explain it better. You can make it permanent but not so sure it’s a good idea.
Edit: It may be a better idea to go the route that @Kresimir recommended.
I really didn’t want to advise to do this. For me it’s just I’m trying to test to figure out why i only have this problem in virtualbox and not vmware or booting on my computer. So it was just to confirm my thoughts.
sorry for the late reply, it was 3am for me…
I had 5.18, 5.18-zen and 5.15 already installed. the 5.18 ones stopped working after the latest updates, and then lts one the day after.
This is what I currently get if I boot these kernels without mitigations=off
5.15 lts
5.18
5.18 zen
When I get these msgs, keyboard is completely locked up. So I cant switch to text console.
Once I got in by adding mitigations=off, I installed linux-lts510 by
Adding this to my /etc/pacman.conf:
[kernel-lts]
Server = https://repo.m2x.dev/current/$repo/$arch
Strange how it booted the first time you used mitigations=off. Are you trying to enable it permanently and this is happening? Are you sure you have done this correctly?