Hi, I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1]. Quoting from it:
> After upgrading from 6.5.9 to 6.6.1 on my Dell Latitude E6420 (Intel > i5-2520M) with EndeavourOS, the boot process would hang at "loading initial > ramdisk". The issue is present on the 6.6.1 release of both Linux and > Linux-zen, but not the 6.5.9 release, which makes me think this is somehow > upstream in the kernel, rather than to do with packaging. My current > workaround is using the Linux LTS kernel. > > I have been unable to consistently reproduce this bug. Between 50 and 30 > percent of the time, the "loading initial ramdisk" will display, the disk > activity indicator will turn off briefly and then resume blinking, and then > the kernel boots as expected. The other 50 to 70 percent of the time, the > boot stops at "loading initial ramdisk" and the disk activity indicator turns > off, and does not resume blinking. The disk activity light is constantly > flashing during normal system operation, so I know it's not secretly booting > but not updating the display. I haven't been able to replicate this issue in > QEMU. I have seen similar bugs that have been solved by disabling IOMMU, but > this has not had any effect. Neither has disabling graphics drivers and > modesetting. I have been able to reproduce it while using Nouveau, so I don't > believe it has to do with Nvidia's proprietary drivers. > > Examining dmesg and journalctl, there doesn't appear to be ANY logs from the > failed boots. I don't believe the kernel even is started on these failed > boots. Enabling GRUB debug messages > (linux,loader,init,fs,device,disk,partition) shows that the hang occurs after > GRUB attempts to start the loaded image- it's able to load the image into > memory, but the boot stalls after "Starting image" with a hex address > (presumably the start addr of the kernel). > > I've been trying to compile the kernel myself to see if I can solve the > issue, or at least aid in reproduceability, but this is not easy or fast to > do on a 2012 i5 processor. I'll update if I can successfully recompile the > kernel and if it yields any information. > > Please let me know if I should provide any additional information. This is my > first time filing a bug here. See Bugzilla for the full thread and attached grub output. Anyway, I'm adding this regression to regzbot: #regzbot introduced: v6.5..v6.6 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173 #regzbot title: initramfs loading hang on nouveau system (Dell Latitude E6420) Thanks. [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218173 -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
