…perhaps an improperly merged .pacnew
file - saw this mentioned at the Arch forum, but the question and thread was from last year and it wasn’t made very obvious that this was the reason
suggestion: look at the contents of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
- the encrypt
HOOK
I don’t know whether you did try to
- chroot:
- check that file’s contents
- rebuild the initrd:
mkinitcpio -P linux
update-grub
exit
reboot
Please provide commands and their output as well for every step
so we can see what you see and did and the immediate results of it.