PI 5 kernel update to 6.18.4 fails booting
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- linux, raspberry-pi
- Domain
- embedded-iot, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure with pacman -Syu linux-rpi on a Raspberry Pi 5 using a Btrfs root and VFAT boot partition. Inspect the 6.18.4 initramfs with lsinitcpio initramfs-linux.img and compare it with the working 6.12.61-1-rpi setup; done means identifying the boot regression and restoring a successful boot.
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Description
Describe the bug
I have a PI 5 with linux-rpi kernel installed, I am using btrfs for root partition and vfat for boot.
after updating kernel to linux-rpi 6.18.4, the system can not boot
Failed to pivot root to new rootfs '/run/systemd/mount-rootfs': Invalid argument
Will try to use NS_MOVE instead: Invalid argument
and for btrfs:
lsinitcpio initramfs-linux.img | grep btrfs
usr/bin/fsck.btrfs
usr/lib/udev/rules.d/64-btrfs.rules
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
pacman -Syu linux-rpi
Device (s)
Raspberry Pi 5
System
2025/01/27 13:08:59
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 76eda9d7 (release) (embedded)
previous kernel: 6.12.61-1-rpi
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