Minor issue with my bootloader

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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So minor that it happened over a week ago and I am just now getting around to trying to figure it out. My system is all AMD if that matters. Anyway, the issue is that I have a random lts in my boot loader that I never installed. The live environment 6.14.9 still works fine.

20250602_112349
20250602_1123491920×1440 111 KB

If I try to use the lts I get this

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20250602_1124171920×1440 261 KB

I would essentially like to delete 6.12.29 from the entries so that it defaults back to the live environment. I tried doing a rollback with timeshift (2 days ago) when I know that that entry wasn’t in the list but it is still there. I would like to think that I’m pretty safe with my OS and the most I do is update and install the occasional new program (trying to stick to official repositories whenever possible).

Hardware information
https://0x0.st/8YLM.txt

Boot log
https://0x0.st/8YLu.txt

lsblk command
[allen@allen-g907 ~]$ lsblk -o name,type,size,PTTYPE,FSTYPE
NAME TYPE SIZE PTTYPE FSTYPE
nvme1n1 disk 3.6T gpt
├─nvme1n1p1 part 16M gpt
└─nvme1n1p2 part 3.6T gpt ntfs
nvme2n1 disk 3.6T gpt
├─nvme2n1p1 part 1G gpt vfat
└─nvme2n1p2 part 3.6T gpt ext4
nvme0n1 disk 1.8T gpt
├─nvme0n1p1 part 100M gpt vfat
├─nvme0n1p2 part 16M gpt
├─nvme0n1p3 part 1.8T gpt ntfs
├─nvme0n1p4 part 705M gpt ntfs
└─nvme0n1p5 part 500M gpt ntfs
[allen@allen-g907 ~]$

If you need any other info please let me know. Thank you!

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You have two different problems:

  1. Is a known error: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/issue-with-dracut-107-and-the-lts-kernel-causing-failed-to-mount-sysroot/71232
    You can fix this with sudo pacman -Syuu
    This will downgrade dracut to Version 106.
  2. You have to configure your systemd-boot to use the kernel-entry you want to use. Therefore change the default-line in the file /efi/loader/loader.conf.
    After that run the command reinstall-kernels.
    More infos see: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/installation/systemd-boot/2022/12/

Hope it helps!

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Actually, changing /efi/loader/loader.conf doesn’t require running reinstall-kernels.

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Oops! :face_with_peeking_eye:

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Dracut has been downgraded. Not 100% understanding this line

" Therefore change the default-line in the file /efi/loader/loader.conf"

In my file I have this
default eea0e827dd764481b784113be4974fec*

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Click on the wiki link @marteng69 linked above. If you scroll down the page, it describes exactly how to change it.

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My apologies, I never clicked that link. I tried both

default 665eca4ae83246df8ec17d1cbc6a1763-*-arch?-?.conf
and
default 665eca4ae83246df8ec17d1cbc6a1763-*-arch?-?.conf*
(what the wiki suggested) but the results are still the same.

Did a hard shutdown just to be extra safe.

Edit:
Am i supposed to make it
eea0e827dd764481b784113be4974fec -*-arch?-?.conf
matching my original file?

I’m new to all of this.

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Yes, you need to your ID. The one on the wiki is just an example.

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That fixed it. Just wanted to be 100% sure before I brick something. Thank you both for the help.

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