[ARM Testing Update] 2023-10-21 - Kernels, PipeWire, KDE Gear & Frameworks, Thunderbird

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Issue on Pi4: /boot/cmdline.txt and /etc/fstab contained: LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO and LABEL=BOOT_MNJRO entries which seemed to prevent the kernel mounts of at least the root partition.

Kernel panic: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

Resolution:

  1. May be optional: Recover previous kernel using installed USB boot - mount SD card root=/ on /mnt and boot=/boot on /mnt/boot then install manjaro-tools-base and then:

    manjaro-chroot /mnt

    … then to avoid pacman errors:

    mv /boot/overlays /boot/overlays.old

    and

    mkdir /boot/overlays

    then

    cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg

    run

    pacman -U linux-rpi4-mainline-6.5.5-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst linux-rpi4-mainline-headers-6.5.5-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst

    and reboot to SD card

  2. Required to upgrade kernel to 6.5.7-1-MANJARO-RPI4:
    Use command “blkid” to find your SD (boot) device PARTUUIDs (2 partitions - root and boot)
    Change LABEL to PARTUUID references for root and boot partitions:

    • /boot/cmdline.txt to (example):
      root=PARTUUID=example-your-PARTUUID-02 … (remaining boot arguments) …
    • /etc/fstab to (example):
    PARTUUID=example-your-PARTUUID-01  /boot   vfat    defaults,noexec,nodev,showexec        0       0
PARTUUID=example-your-PARTUUID-02  /   ext4    defaults,noatime        0       1

    … (remaining entries) …

    … reboot and update if required … remove /boot/overlays.old if required …

Moderator edit: Added proper formatting