Can't boot from snapshot: setting up additional binary formats

Hmm, this looks similar to another thread on the forum: Can't boot into snapshots from GRUB menu

Like this other person, you are missing the microcode hook. There was an upstream change a couple months ago to bundle the microcode into the initramfs. See this announcement here: Arch Linux - News: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode

Add the microcode hook between autodetect and modconf, so the whole line looks like this:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect microcode modconf block keyboard keymap consolefont plymouth filesystems grub-btrfs-overlayfs"

Next, check in /etc/mkinitcpio.d/ to see if you have any kernel preset files in there. If you do, edit the files to remove this line:

ALL_microcode=(/boot/*-ucode.img)

Just deleting the line is fine. If it is the only line you can delete the file altogether.

After making those changes, regenerate the initramfs.

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Next, edit /etc/default/grub and add this line somewhere in the file:

GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK=''

Regenerate the Grub configuration file.

sudo update-grub

After getting the microcode straightened out, try creating a new snapshot and test if you can boot it from Grub. If you still cannot, install the LTS kernel and test booting a snapshot with that kernel instead to see if it works.

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