On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Oliver Temlin <temlin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On January 18, 2015 5:49:37 PM CET, "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>mkinitcpio -p linux >> > > You missed that the base group should be reinstalled, as the error is not with the ramdisk, but with the files of systemd. > Just run `pacman -S base' after systemd-nspawn. To try and help you out I ran a listing of what's in the normal (default options) initramfs. The only change I make is to add lvm2, everything else is out of the box. http://pastebin.com/hGT6jSN4 $ egrep -v "^(#|$)" /etc/mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="" BINARIES="" FILES="" HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 filesystems keyboard fsck" The output in the pastebin shows: /sbin/init -> /usr/bin/init -> /usr/bin/busybox hth, -te