LEAD ME DOWN ANOTHER RABBIT HOLE WITH OBTUSE NON-EXPLANATIONS, I DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
oh you just gotta append some initrd= options to the boot loader or whatever, tehee :troll:
WELL HOW THE FUCK DO I DO THAT?? I WILL FIND YOU
The arch install has me aneurysm exploding is what it has.Spent the whole day on it and I feel like I’ve learned nothing. Also it won’t boot.
pivot_root() changes the root mount in the mount namespace of the calling process. More precisely, it moves the root mount to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root mount. The calling process must have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the user namespace that owns the caller’s mount namespace.
pivot_root() changes the root directory and the current working directory of each process or thread in the same mount namespace to new_root if they point to the old root directory. (See also NOTES.) On the other hand, pivot_root() does not change the caller’s current working directory (unless it is on the old root directory), and thus it should be followed by a chdir(“/”) call."
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Ngl, I never learned much from jumping in the deep end either.
Found out from a swimming instructor friend that it’s not the accepted way to teach now.
Why are you installing arch?
Been running manjaro for some time, and I got a new ssd so I figured I’d give it a shot. Was hoping AUR might work better there, it has been kinda glitchy for me.
I’ve had to rewrite this post a few times bc the site is extremely good so please don’t take any tone as an implied slight against you.
Aur has always been weird. Manjaro is slightly different but even on arch the aurs got quirks.
This is gonna sound like old man advice, but have you considered Debian? It’s got decades of good documentation that’s written for a lower threshold of understanding and tends to be much more stable and usable for me.
Plus no one’s gonna a think you’re a dumbass for using literally the oldest linux distribution around.
Arch docs tend to be like your op: “add the appropriate initrd to your boot loader”. Assuming you know what boot loader you’re using, where it’s config file is, how to edit it, what syntax it expects for an initrd definition, what an initrd is and how to figure out which one you want to pick, how to install the bootloader once you’ve edited the configuration and most importantly: how to troubleshoot grub not booting.
When you’re over a critical number of those assumptions, you’re not learning anymore, you’re just suffering.
