[PLUG] Gentoo / Arch / other : please advise

[prasanna balan]

Hello,
         First of all, the force option is necessary as some packages
did need manual intervention.See [1] and [2].
         Arch uses an initramfs image that then boots up the actual
file-system. If you have the same error as shown in the forum link,
either grub is not configured properly (note that it uses grub-legacy
by default) or hooks have not been defined properly. Read [3] for
hooks, update them as needed in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and run
# mkinitcpio -p linux
as given in the forum link.

Hope this helps.

[1] https://archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-manual-intervention-required/
[2] https://archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required/
[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#HOOKS