No mkinitcpio preset present
My laptop lost battery during an update, so the linux kernel got truncated. After arch-chrooting into it and reinstalling linux, it’s OK, but /boot/initramfs-linux.img (and the fallback) are empty. Also, /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset is empty. How can I fix this, and how can I generate a preset?
ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ returns nothing
Regenerate a new initramfs-linux.img accordingly to the archlinux wiki:
mkinitcpio -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img -k 5.5.7-arch1-1
use ls /usr/lib/modules to get the available kernel.
Had this recently. My solution was to chroot into the system from an Arch live system. Delete the empty linux.preset in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ and then run pacman -S linux.
This regenerated the linux.preset and the initramfs was rebuild. After that Arch booted as usual.