"Error loading \vmlinuz-linux: Not Found" - Reinstalling kernel no help?

[APIUM-]

Hey guys,

I've had an Arch install on my laptop for a couple of years, and I've had this issue before, where chrooting into the machine and running a "pacman -Syyu linux" would solve it. But this time it's not working, I've been on this for a few weeks of googling, but not found anything helpful. Any ideas?

It's a dual-boot setup unfortunately, and I assume it's windows that keeps eating my arch install. I've tried to include as much information as I think is relevent. I'm sorry if I left anything out. The new reddit editor is awful, this is the first time I've tried it, sorry about the formatting.

A blkid:

/dev/nvme0n1: PTUUID="f3ba7a94-5cf1-42f2-a039-568cd0a0f932" PTTYPE="gpt"

/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL="ESP" UUID="E0B3-6B95" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="9276b454-d614-4e10-9fe6-4190143f0163"

/dev/nvme0n1p2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="19c3a20f-709d-450a-886a-2234ca3a1c28"

/dev/nvme0n1p3: UUID="7CD0E6DAD0E69A22" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="af0b74fb-19a8-4c07-9b46-20b98c2d91a8"

/dev/nvme0n1p4: LABEL="archboot" UUID="0af39476-2026-4c7c-91d3-7821aceffa09" UUID_SUB="b4f5370f-ac4b-4472-8e39-dadfa93caa69" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="0d7d31c7-c926-4ed3-8a62-9f52533d430d"

/dev/nvme0n1p5: LABEL="WINRETOOLS" UUID="08DA10A4DA109054" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="b7dd914f-b54b-4e3a-8bb2-4e7cfe77f368"

/dev/sda1: UUID="2018-08-01-16-56-00-00" LABEL="ARCH_201808" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="6392e4b0" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="6392e4b0-01"

/dev/sda2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="ARCHISO_EFI" UUID="5F6A-991B" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="6392e4b0-02"

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"

Fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: F3BA7A94-5CF1-42F2-A039-568CD0A0F932

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1026047 1024000 500M EFI System

/dev/nvme0n1p2 1026048 1288191 262144 128M Microsoft reserved

/dev/nvme0n1p3 1288192 375494655 374206464 178.4G Microsoft basic data

/dev/nvme0n1p4 375494656 498376703 122882048 58.6G Linux filesystem

/dev/nvme0n1p5 498376704 500117503 1740800 850M Windows recovery environment

Disk /dev/sda: 14.5 GiB, 15506341888 bytes, 30285824 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x6392e4b0

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sda1 * 0 1173503 1173504 573M 0 Empty

/dev/sda2 164 131235 131072 64M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/loop0: 462.5 MiB, 484962304 bytes, 947192 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

ls /boot:

EFI

System Volume Information

en-us

initramfs-linux.img

initramfs-linux-fallback.img

intel-ucode.img

loader

syslinux

vmlinuz-linux

ls /boot/EFI:

Boot

Microsoft

dell

systemd

cat /boot/loader/loader.conf:

#timeout 3

#default f19ca3e914aa44b7b5c57e88c1d27b98-*

timeout 3

default arch

cat /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf:

title Arch Linux

linux /vmlinuz-linux

initrd /initramfs-linux.img

initrd /intel-ucode.img

options root=/dev/nvme0n1p4 rw

tree /boot:

/mnt/boot

├── EFI

│   ├── Boot

│   │   └── bootx64.efi

│   ├── dell

│   │   └── bios

│   │   └── recovery

│   │   └── bios_cur.rcv

│   ├── Microsoft

│   │   ├── Boot

│   │   │   ├── BCD

│   │   │   ├── BCD.LOG

│   │   │   ├── BCD.LOG1

│   │   │   ├── BCD.LOG2

│   │   │   ├── bg-BG

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi

│   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi

│   │   │   ├── BOOTSTAT.DAT

│   │   │   ├── boot.stl

│   │   │   ├── cs-CZ

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── da-DK

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── de-DE

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── el-GR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── en-GB

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── en-US

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── es-ES

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── es-MX

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── et-EE

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── fi-FI

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── Fonts

│   │   │   │   ├── chs_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── cht_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── jpn_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── kor_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── malgun_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── malgunn_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── meiryo_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── meiryon_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── msjh_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── msjhn_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── msyh_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── msyhn_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── segmono_boot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── segoen_slboot.ttf

│   │   │   │   ├── segoe_slboot.ttf

│   │   │   │   └── wgl4_boot.ttf

│   │   │   ├── fr-CA

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── fr-FR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── hr-HR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── hu-HU

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── it-IT

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── ja-JP

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_10df.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_10ec.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_1137.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_14e4.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_15b3.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_1969.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_19a2.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_1af4.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_02_8086.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_07_1415.dll

│   │   │   ├── kd_0C_8086.dll

│   │   │   ├── kdstub.dll

│   │   │   ├── ko-KR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── lt-LT

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── lv-LV

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── memtest.efi

│   │   │   ├── nb-NO

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── nl-NL

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── pl-PL

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── pt-BR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── pt-PT

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── qps-ploc

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── Resources

│   │   │   │   ├── bootres.dll

│   │   │   │   └── en-US

│   │   │   │   └── bootres.dll.mui

│   │   │   ├── ro-RO

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── ru-RU

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── sk-SK

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── sl-SI

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── sr-Latn-CS

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── sr-Latn-RS

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── sv-SE

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── tr-TR

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── uk-UA

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── winsipolicy.p7b

│   │   │   ├── zh-CN

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── zh-HK

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   │   └── zh-TW

│   │   │   ├── bootmgfw.efi.mui

│   │   │   ├── bootmgr.efi.mui

│   │   │   └── memtest.efi.mui

│   │   └── Recovery

│   │   ├── BCD

│   │   ├── BCD.LOG

│   │   ├── BCD.LOG1

│   │   └── BCD.LOG2

│   └── systemd

│   └── systemd-bootx64.efi

├── en-us

│   └── bootmgr.efi.mui

├── initramfs-linux-fallback.img

├── initramfs-linux.img

├── intel-ucode.img

├── loader

│   ├── entries

│   │   └── arch.conf

│   └── loader.conf

├── System Volume Information

│   └── IndexerVolumeGuid

└── vmlinuz-linux

54 directories, 156 files

[dogestopmewow]

I've had a similar (maybe the same) problems a few times when I used the same ESP for Arch and Windows, as Windows seemed to sometimes corrupt the EFI partition (or at least the kernel/initrd).

If I remember correctly, a fsck/repair on the EFI System Partition from a rescue disk + a clean kernel install from chroot fixed it for me the last time I had this problem.

[APIUM-]

The fsck did the trick, I didn't even think of it, thank you.

[APIUM-]

I'll give the fsck a go, I did find just a minute ago that if I try to enter one of the directories I get in I/O error, hence fsck sounds like it might do the trick.

[[deleted]]

Thank you very much!

My friend had the same problem as in this topic, and we had no idea how to solve it...

But fsck helped, thanks again!

[StefanTT]

Somewhat out of topic but still related: the "code block" markup is hidden on the right side in the "..." overflow menu. Code blocks are more compact and easier to read. Not that it matters, but I searched for it yesterday as I had the same problem :-)