[SOLVED] can’t boot; error message “hardware init failed”

[slim dawn]

backstory: because of some mirror issue one package (gnome-keybindings) was failing to download.

In a fit of stupidity i decided the best way to fix the issue was deleting gnome-keybindings altogether. Unfortunately when I restarted my pc, the settings app was gone along with my wifi connection.

To fix this issue I connected my pc to my router via ethernet and tried to reinstall the package. This did not fix the issue however, even after restarting. After reinstalling the settings app did nothing i had another bright idea. Why not just delete and then reinstall ALL the gnome packages. That would fix it.

So i ran sudo pacman -Rcns gnome, and then reinstalled it.
Of course that did not work. In fact it made everything worse. When I restarted again the booting failed and i was greeted with a bunch of lovely errors.

At this point i can only assume anything i do will only make things worse, since that appears to be my luck recently. So if you guys have any ideas i would really appreciate the help.

[nimble saffron]

send picture of the errors

[nimble saffron]

pacman -Syu linux-firmware

run and see

[slim dawn]

I can’t input anything from here

[nimble saffron]

in chroot

[slim dawn]

i do have an arch usb

ah ok

wait now my usb isn’t showing up

[nimble saffron]

plug it in and change boot order

[slim dawn]

it’s plugged in and the boot order is changed

oh wait

it reverted for some reason

[nimble saffron]

do this in chroot

[slim dawn]

i’m trying to enable iwd

[nimble saffron]

?

picture

[nimble saffron]

stop

connect to internet outside of chroot with iwctl

[slim dawn]

i tried to exit but “there are stopped jobs”

[nimble saffron]

execute jobs

@slim dawn

[nimble saffron]

jobs

execute jobs

then send picture

oops

@slim dawn

wrong ping

[slim dawn]

ah

lol

[nimble saffron]

do this and send picture

just "jobs" and press enter

[nimble saffron]

kill %1 %2

then send picture

[nimble saffron]

do jobs again and send pictgure

[nimble saffron]

killall -9 iwctl

then jobs again and send picture

[slim dawn]

ok i think that worked

[nimble saffron]

type exit and press enter

and then use iwctl to connect to internet

mount your esp partition as well

and then arch-chroot /mnt

[slim dawn]

got it

is the esp partition the efi partition? The 1gb one?

[nimble saffron]

yes

[slim dawn]

ok i’m mounted

lol

[nimble saffron]

arch-chroot /mnt

what kernel are u using

regular?

[slim dawn]

i think so

[nimble saffron]

check with pacman -Qs kernel

and then send image

[nimble saffron]

pacman -Syu linux linux-firmware

run this

and then reboot and see

[slim dawn]

this is new

lock databases?

[nimble saffron]

ls /var/lib/pacman

run and send picture

[slim dawn]

ding!

[nimble saffron]

rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

pacman -Syu linux-firmware linux-firmware-amdgpu linux-firmware-atheros linux-firmware-broadcom linux-firmware-cirrus linux-firmware-intel linux-firmware-mediatek linux-firmware-nvidia linux-firmware-other linux-firmware-radeon linux-firmware-realtek linux-firmware-whence linux

run this after

and then reboot

[slim dawn]

what are all of those for?

[nimble saffron]

run it

and then reboot

[slim dawn]

ok i double checked that i spelled it correctly, and it’s running

i’ll reboot after it’s finished

ok I rebooted

should i change the order back?

[nimble saffron]

unplug usb

[slim dawn]

better then last time at least

[nimble saffron]

drop to shell and systemctl status boot.mount

and then send picture

[nimble saffron]

rebuild the kernel

[slim dawn]

ok i give up. how do you rebuild?

[nimble saffron]

mkinitcpio -P

then reboot

[slim dawn]

ok thanks

[nimble saffron]

did it work?

[slim dawn]

rebuilding did not fail

[nimble saffron]

reboot

[slim dawn]

i have not rebooted yet

will do

same issue as before, no changes

[nimble saffron]

modprobe vfat

what does this return

[slim dawn]

fatal: not found

[nimble saffron]

try depmod

then reboot

[nimble saffron]

reinstall the kernel

[slim dawn]

pacman -S linux?

[nimble saffron]

pacman -Syu linux

[slim dawn]

oh i think i might need to connect to the internet again one second

[nimble saffron]

go into chroot in iso

[slim dawn]

so plug in the usb, connect to the internet, mount both partitions and run pacman -Syu linux?

[nimble saffron]

yes

then show me

ur fstab

in chroot

and lsblk -f

@slim dawn

[slim dawn]

i’m working on it

i forgot how to mount the drives

[nimble saffron]

i'll guide you through it

run lsblk -f and send picture

[nimble saffron]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
cat /mnt/etc/fstab

run these 2 and send picture

[nimble saffron]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
arch-chroot /mnt
pacman -Syu linux
reboot

[slim dawn]

YIPEEEEEEEE

[nimble saffron]

... solved

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[nimble saffron]

@slim dawn do this

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[SOLVED] can’t boot; error message “hardware init failed”

@nimble saffron thanks a lot

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