On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:19:17PM -0500, Genes Lists wrote: > On 01/12/2013 11:09 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: > > > > >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. > > > > Was hoping you'd say that :-) Tho now am a tiny bit puzzled that > the initramfs created when I installed 3.7.1 actually booted ... > > I will re-install 3.7.2 and try again! > > thank you for your help. > > gene Because mkinitcpio never created anything on upgrade or downgrade. The initramfs image in /boot remained consistent with your 3.7.1 kernel.