[SOLVED] Always initramfs on boot

[devnulljp]

Since upgrading 24.04 -> 24.10, every boot drops into initramfs, and nothunig seems to work in it anyway. reboot commonad does nothing forcing a hard reboot (push/hold power button).
Then it goes to grub on boot.
This is consistent behaviour -- every boot forced or not drops into initramfs, forcing a hard reboot, then I get grub and can go on as normal.

What's it doing and why? And how do I stop it?

[jlittle]

I suspect a grub problem. I imagine grub is running something because it thinks it's the only option, and it fails to load a kernel, but sets the record fail flag so on the next boot it gives the menu.

So, I suggest rerunning update-grub, perhaps after editing /etc/default/grub to remove the words "quiet splash" where they appear, and setting GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1.

That's in a konsole:

sudo update-grub

[devnulljp]

Solved. Looks like I needed to fsck my boot drive
Double check filesystem type and make sure I had the correct device name

blkid

which gave

/dev/nvme1n1p2: UUID="4ab857b4-36ee-4782-8cb6-ce87346be2c1" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="47b78b23-bc4f-4d91-886d-de2b039aba9f"

Then, as it's ext4

fsck /dev/nvme1n1p2 -y

And

reboot -f

to reboot -- I had been missing the -f flag before so it didn't do anything