Stuck on initial ramdisk after updating

Hey everyone, newbie looking to get some help. I did a fresh install of garuda last week and it worked fine although I had some errors that prevented me from updating. Was to lazy to figure out what they were so held off on it. I did a fresh install yesterday and now I can finish the setup assistant, but everytime I restart it gets stuck on

loading initial ramdisk...

I was looking through the forums and found different causes and different solutions. I suspect it’s an nvidia driver issue. I’m sorry if the answer exists but I executed it incorrectly.

Things I’ve tried:

  • pressing E before booting and removing splash or itd=off (itd=off already present and splash isn’t there)
  • switching from plymouth to plymouth-git
  • switch kernels

The two latter ones give me some mirrorlist errors and I don’t know if they’re related to my problem. I became garuda only a while ago and would love to stick with it. Thanks beforehand!

garuda-inxi

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(upower:312): UPower-WARNING **: 21:20:10.047: Cannot connect to upowerd: Could not connect: No such file or d
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Garuda (2.6.19-2):
System install date:     2023-11-18
Last full system update: 2023-11-18
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager connman dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Running in chroot, ignoring command 'list-units'
Failed units:

Try last working snapshot.

Or install new with free driver. Check forum for dual GPU, I have no clue about.

Change this to AHCI mode in your BIOS.

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Holy that fixed it! Thank you a lot! Would you mind telling me why that caused a problem?

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Unfortunately, I can’t tell you exactly.
I’ve always read about that prerequisite in Linux, but I’ve always had the feeling that in the past, from a certain point on, it worked even with raid mode (just because I didn’t see any issue about it in the forum…).
If so, it could be a kernel regression.
If not, maybe a BIOS (or Windows…) update brought back raid mode?
A quick internet search confirms that Intel raid is a technology not supported by Linux. If you search and read, there should be technical documentation about it (as opposed to quick statements in forums, reddits, etc.).

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Got it! Thank you again!!

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