This has been a pain point with me over the past 3 months or so in
december.  I've taken long weekends to wreck this thing, rebuild grub.cfg's
from scratch, just about everything to make it work, but it simply
doesn't.  I've reached the point this isn't my problem directly, but rather
some bug.  Holiday project gone bad, had to learn grub cfg's just to make
it work again.  Another of those things you really don't want to know, but
some unforeseen circumstance makes you own it.

Rewind a bit, I use a classic recipe for me usually,
raid+luks(encryption)+lvm+fs.  In this case, no raid, just
efi+luks+lvm+fs.  The kernel as building it both with 4.19, efi bootstraps
just fine, launches grub, launches the kernel, and it just craps out find
my encryption volume to unlock first before the root pivot.  I can boot
ubuntu that works just dandy with their kernel without any deep changes,
and arch-based I mod the mkinitcpio.conf hooks accordingly, and still it
doesn't work.  I've entirely duplicated my build from my desktop, which
works fine with raid+luks+lvm+fs, and still it refuses.  I can only think
some regression/bug at this point, there's no other reason this shouldn't
work.

I was debating copying my kernel from my desktop that builds clean and
works just dandy with all of the above, which I haven't upgraded in the
past few months, prior to my fscking with this laptop and angering me at
least.  I don't know why, but I'm done feeling entirely guilty/stupid for
not being able to make it work, as forums show I'm not the only one.  Some
sort of regression I suspect that no one but the diehard's that do the FS
stack like I do notice, but it has been noticed...

-mb


On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:00 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com>
wrote:

> To follow up Mike's Conversation earlier about arch on a laptop I am
> actually curious about the issue you had.
>
> I have had really good success with arch on laptops lately. And with the
> release of Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu has been really amenable.
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