Hello,
I’ve performed a kernel update today (from 6.1.1 to 6.1.8) and after rebooting I noticed my system would not boot anymore. All I got was an emergency shell.
I then noticed that systemd-boot still showed the old kernel version for both the regular boot and fallback.
After arch-chrooting and downgrading to 6.1.1 the system boots fine again, but I am unable to get systemd boot to boot the latest kernel.
Any idea what is going on here?
Thanks for you help 
It sounds like maybe your EFI partition wasn’t properly mounted when you upgraded the kernel.
What does findmnt --real return?
TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS
/ /dev/mapper/luks-fd466e6a-83f2-4fef-be1f-4b845c0ff35f ext4 rw,noatime
├─/run/media/unlink/77d31a9f-8d6d-48c8-bdbc-418c792e630b
│ /dev/mapper/luks-33c1dbf1-1283-40ac-966b-24561cc74bc2 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=remount-ro
├─/run/user/1000/doc portal fuse.portal rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000
└─/efi /dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-r
Currently it looks like this. I have already attempted reinstalling the update again and I still get the boot issues after.
Can you share the full output when you update the kernel?
Package (1) Old Version New Version Net Change
core/linux 6.1.8.arch1-1 6.1.8.arch1-1 0,00 MiB
Total Installed Size: 164,44 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0,00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [------------------------------] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling linux [------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/5) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/5) Updating module dependencies...
(3/5) Updating linux initcpios...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 6.1.8-arch1-1
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [kms]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
-> Running build hook: [keymap]
-> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 6.1.8-arch1-1
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [kms]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: ast
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
-> Running build hook: [keymap]
-> Running build hook: [consolefont]
==> WARNING: consolefont: no font found in configuration
-> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
(4/5) Check if user should be informed about rebooting after certain system package upgrades.
==> INFO: Reboot is recommended due to the upgrade of core system package(s).
(5/5) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
Running lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img also shows me that at the very least it generated the image correctly as it contains modules for 6.1.8, however bootctl list only shows the 6.1.1
bootctl list
type: Boot Loader Specification Type #1 (.conf)
title: EndeavourOS (6.1.1-arch1-1) (default) (selected)
id: 8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5-6.1.1-arch1-1.conf
source: /efi/loader/entries/8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5-6.1.1-arch1-1.conf
sort-key: endeavouros-6.1.1-arch1-1
version: 6.1.1-arch1-1
machine-id: 8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5
linux: /8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5/6.1.1-arch1-1/linux
initrd: /8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5/6.1.1-arch1-1/initrd
options: nvme_load=YES rw rd.luks.uuid=fd466e6a-83f2-4fef-be1f-4b845c0ff35f root=/dev/ma>
type: Boot Loader Specification Type #1 (.conf)
title: EndeavourOS (6.1.1-arch1-1-fallback)
id: 8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5-6.1.1-arch1-1-fallback.conf
source: /efi/loader/entries/8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5-6.1.1-arch1-1-fallback.conf
sort-key: endeavouros-6.1.1-arch1-1-fallback
version: 6.1.1-arch1-1-fallback
machine-id: 8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5
linux: /8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5/6.1.1-arch1-1/linux
initrd: /8a0afa9f1fc440fca5f68e58f3c212e5/6.1.1-arch1-1/initrd-fallback
options: nvme_load=YES rw rd.luks.uuid=fd466e6a-83f2-4fef-be1f-4b845c0ff35f root=/dev/ma>
type: Automatic
title: Reboot Into Firmware Interface
id: auto-reboot-to-firmware-setup
source: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/LoaderEntries-4a67b082-0a4c-41cf-b6c7-440b29bb8c4
Update: I figured it out, turn out it was a classic case of me somehow managing to nuke the kernel-install package without noticing.
After reinstalling it and trying again everything worked fine.
Thanks for your help
Yeah, I was asleep when you posted your output above but it is pretty clear that you installed eos-dracut at some point.
Installing that package will remove kernel-install-for-dracut which is probably what caused your issue.
I ran into this same issue. I had to uninstall mkinitcpio-archiso in order to install kernel-install-for-dracut because of package conflicts.
After that I ran yay again, got the kernel update and rebooted without issue.
Yes, in the most recent ISO, we made it harder to uninstall these packages by mistake to avoid this situation in the future.