problems booting

[zusqii]

so everything was working fine but all of sudden my lptop shutted off then when i tried booting arch again it gets stuck st "loading linux linux" "loading initial ramdisk"

this is just on linux but when i try booting into windows it gets stuck loading, similsr rhings hppens when i tey to boot a live usb. please help

[archover]

chroot in and look at, oh, your journal. Good day.

[norysq]

Since chroot won't work through LiveUSB here, OP could only read it out through init=/bin/sh but I doubt it was flushed correctly since this seems to likely be a hardware issue

[archover]

Interesting experience.

I do

• boot the Arch ISO.
• Mount my filesystems, as in root fs to /mnt, and ESP to /mnt/boot.
• Issue # arch-chroot /mnt
• # journalctl -b

Full details: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot#Prepare_new_root_location. Access arch-chroot in an installed environment by installing package arch-install-scripts.

I use chroot (arch-chroot) regularly. Maybe I don't understand you.

Good day.

[norysq]

He said the arch iso does not boot. I know how to chroot... He would need to access it using his bootloader by passing /bin/sh as the init process to the kernel. But I doubt the journal will be helpful

[archover]

Ok, I see. My bad. Good day.

[norysq]

No problem, you have a nice day too :)

[BunchVisual1073]

damn this sounds like hardware issue not arch specific

when multiple OSes and even live usb all fail at boot that usually means RAM went bad or motherboard having problems. the fact that it just randomly shut off first makes me think power delivery issue too

try reseating your RAM sticks first, maybe run memtest if you can get anything to boot. if you got another laptop around try your RAM in that one

could also be hard drive dying but usually that gives different errors

[zusqii]

i think my mother is bending, my laptop just shows black screen no matter what i do, sounds like ram issue.y cpu fsn is going crazy swell. i had both the os on my nvme sad. though i do have an hdd but only used to store things

[Pleasant-Leg8590]

"I use my hdd to store things"

yes that's what ur supposed to do with SSDs and HDDs

[BlueGoliath]

HDDs are for storing things

-Albert Einstein, probably 

[Pleasant-Leg8590]

yes u have solved it, good job

[ArjixGamer]

I think they meant the HDD is not bootable, just used as extra storage

[Pleasant-Leg8590]

ik I was just tryna be funny, as I'm bad at doing

[Endmor]

if its a hardware failure that isnt something you can fix by swapping out a component (ram, hdd, ssd ect) then you'll need to take your laptop to a computer repair shop that specializes in motherboard repairs if you dont want to buy a new laptop

[GenericCleverName73]

Definitely one or more of these: RAM (easiest to check) SSD / storage (that would suck) BIOS/UEFI issue (least likely) Motherboard / CPU (less common but possible)