Mkinitcpio update and changes may need some manual intervention

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EDIT

I just edit this post to add an extra step that needs to be done in case someone just stops reading here and not the whole thread.

This is from a post further down in the thread :arrow_right: here

So this is what needed to be done in may case:

  1. edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and add microcode to HOOKS line:

    HOOKS=(systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)

  2. edit preset files for my kernels in /etc/mkinitcpio.d and comment out (or delete) the following line:

    ALL_microcode=(/boot/*-ucode.img)

  3. regenerate initramfs:

    sudo mkinitcpio -P

Compare the line that begins with HOOKS in following two files:

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew

For my part, I just needed to add microcode in the HOOKS line of my mkinitcpio.conf as is shown below:

HOOKS=(systemd autodetect microcode modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems resume fsck)

and then rebuild the initramfs:

sudo mkinitcpio -P

for the microcode to be build into the initramfs.

Edit: correcting typo

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