Mkinitcpio update and changes may need some manual intervention

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Hi @all using mkinitcpio !

Revisiting the new mkinitcpio this morning and regenerating my initramfs, I saw the following line in the output of the

sudo mkinitcpio -P

command:

==> WARNING: Deprecated option ‘ALL_microcode’ found. Update ‘/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-zen.preset’ to use the ‘microcode’ hook instead.

This means that the preset files in /etc/mkinitcpio.d need to be edited as well.

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)

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

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

  1. regenerate initramfs: sudo mkinitcpio -P

Using Grub here, updating the /boot/grub/grub.cfg will still automatically create:

initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img

line. So useless to remove it manually fom grub.cfg since the file will be overwritten next time it is regenerated.

As for the conf files for systemd-boot entries being also automatically generated in EnOS, I hope that @dalto can comment on that.

PS. sorry for having missed the WARNING in the first run before I posted previously

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