Boot stucks at "Loading initial ramdisk"

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 01:54:28 EST 2023


On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:58:23PM +0530, Dileep Sankhla wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have cloned and built the latest rc kernel using the default config but
> on boot, it stucks at "Loading initial ramdisk". I have tried booting after
> removing the "quiet" option from the kernel parameters just before
> selecting the kernel from the grub menu. I have also tried adding
> "dis_ucode_ldr" parameter to the initial parameters but all in vain.
> 

For initramfs, make sure to follow instructions specific to your distro
(search the web if you're unsure). For example, as I'm on Arch, I use
mkinitcpio (see [1]) to generate initramfs after compiling the kernel.

Thanks.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio

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