Kernel

Sometimes, after an interrupded update, your Arch Linux system may not boot.

If you got a message like this:

Loading Linux linux...
error: file '/vmzlinuz-linux' not found.
Loading initial ramdisk...
error: you need to load the kernel first.

Press any key to continue...

The steps you may want to follow are the following:

  1. Boot into the Arch Linux Live USB

  2. Mount your disk as described here

  3. Chroot into /mnt

  4. Run the following commands:

    pacman -S linux
    mkinitcpio -p linux
    
  5. Reboot into your system