By pierrezero
When trying to upgrade the image using pacman -Syu (with the exclusion of the “linux” kernel package) after a reboot the image ends up being non bootable with the folling message :
“Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist.” It’s stuck in the initial image with busybox.
I followed this : https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/ I even tried adding syslinux,mkinticpio* and linux-firmware in “IgnorePkg” line of pacman.conf.
There are currently 118 packages to upgrade, I could not find which one renders the machine non bootable.
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