Error codes

[indigo jasper]

initramfs unpacking failed invalid magic at start of compressed archive
/dev/root: can't open blockdev
Using a msi motherboard and main host is win 11

[lapis plover]

@indigo jasper Do you have enough space on your /boot partition?

[indigo jasper]

I put 50

[lapis plover]

@indigo jasper https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=252429

[indigo jasper]

i tried but now i only have 1 error

initramfs unpacking failed invalid magic at start of compressed archive

[left snow]

have you regenerated your initramfs

[left snow]

MB I assume?

does your initramfs fit onto that

I would be surprised if it does

[indigo jasper]

Im not sure do i need more storage?

[left snow]

I'm pretty sure it tells you that when generating the initramfs

is this a fresh install

[indigo jasper]

Yeah idk how to check that

Yeah

[left snow]

boot into the installer and redo the initramfs regeneration step of the install

(you'll have to do the mounting and chroot as well since that's necessary for it)

[indigo jasper]

okay ill try and ill let you know

[left snow]

since it's a fresh install it's probably easiest to just redo the whole install to increase the space on the boot partition

[indigo jasper]

Do u have a yt video that could guide

Bc i did the partition again snd it same codes

[left snow]

what do you mean by "I did the partition again"

[indigo jasper]

making enough storage for the iso file to go into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dKzYmhcGEU&t=614s

[left snow]

I still don't know what you mean

for what iso to go into and where

[indigo jasper]

the storage

[left snow]

no that... doesn't help

okay hold on

[indigo jasper]

okay

[left snow]

I didn't realise you were using archinstall

[indigo jasper]

oh

what did u guys do to instal l

[left snow]

archinstall is the name of a script

[indigo jasper]

oh

[left snow]

it's not the traditional way of installing arch

most people do a manual install and the instructions for that are on the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

[indigo jasper]

i was following the guide

[left snow]

I don't know what part you did exactly

did you just reinstall everything

[indigo jasper]

yeah

[left snow]

how much space did you give the boot partition

[indigo jasper]

57

thats the amount it allowed me to even though i had 200

57gb

[left snow]

for a boot partition?

[indigo jasper]

yeah

for this right

[left snow]

I wouldn't know

running dualboot is inherently more complicated, the user must know more stuff about their system

[indigo jasper]

Want me to list the things i hav?

[left snow]

no that's not what I mean

I was referring to knowing what partitions should contain what

[indigo jasper]

oh

[left snow]

it looks like you reserved 57 gb of space where you intended to install arch on but this isn't what I'm asking

it doesn't mean you put the multiple partitions arch would have onto that space

I assume you're booting with gpt and uefi?

in this case you would typically give arch at least two partitions, boot and root

[indigo jasper]

yeah using a usb

[left snow]

so I need to know how big the boot partition is to rule out the problem that the initramfs isn't fitting on it

[indigo jasper]

do u want to hop on a call so im able to stream

?

[left snow]

the guide you sent creates the boot partition at 7:35

are you booted into the arch iso

show lsblk

[indigo jasper]

it doesnt let me even get to arch

[left snow]

?

[indigo jasper]

once i press install arch linux it sends me to a black screen
initramfs unpacking failed invalid magic at start of compressed archive
/dev/root: can't open blockdev

[left snow]

wait so this was with the arch installer the whole time

not with an arch installation

[indigo jasper]

yeah

[left snow]

okay should have said that at the start

[indigo jasper]

i thought that was what u were guiding me with

[left snow]

not at all

reflash the ISO

[indigo jasper]

oh

ive tried it 3 times

it still shows the same ones

[left snow]

then I'm out of ideas

[indigo jasper]

oh

[left snow]

is it the newest iso

[indigo jasper]

yeah

6/01/24

[left snow]

you answered questions about your boot partition which doesn't exist yet

that caused some confusion

[indigo jasper]

oh sorry

[left snow]

all you could try is using another usb or switching boot mode between uefi and bios but those might not help