On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote: > On 01/12/2013 10:50 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > > There's nothing wrong with the kernel. You've probably been ignoring the > > warnings from pacman about file being newer than what's in the repos. > > file-5.12 was removed from [testing] because it was misidentifying > > kernel images, which broke mkinitcpio. > > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33373 > > > > This is fixed for good in mkinitcpio, as the next version won't rely on > > file at all. > > > > file-5.12: > spot on - and sorry - downgraded to 5.11 > > linux-3.7.2: > Does this explain why 3.7.2 doesn't boot and 3.7.1 does? O > Or is something still amiss with 3.7.2 kernel? > > Thanks ... > > gene mkinitcpio didn't generate a valid initramfs for the kernel... you can't boot an ARCH kernel without an initramfs. Nothing is wrong with 3.7.2.