First of all, my apologies for this noob question.
Well, I am a little lost here. Just installed Manjaro (21.3.7-220816 - KDE edition) here, coming from Kubuntu. I am starting to setting things up, but a little thing is annoying me.
When the machine starts, a dark screen is displayed, with a “GRUB>” prompt. I have to enter “EXIT” there and press ENTER, so I can finally enter Manjaro.
But, any idea about what is happening here, please? Why that prompt prevents the OS initialization?
Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry once again for the trouble.
Many thanks and sorry for the confusion. Just updated my post including the inxi output.
So, I’ve done all the procedures. I also ended running sudo update-grub before reboot. But nothing changed that strange prompt at boot, unfortunately.
you are dual booting with windows?
and the blank option is probably manjaro…
post output from: test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios lsblk -f
Thank you so much, and I tried to follow the procedures in the suggested article.
But, here the things are a bit different. For example, at the article the ouput of ls (hd0,1) displays a series of files and paths, as well as the root filesystem.
Here I was not able to see something similar. Here is the output of my ls:
For the above, I was able to find ext4 partitions only for (hd0,gpt1), which is an external SSD. (hd1,gpt8), which is the backup partition I’ve set for Timeshift.
From now on, there are only 2 partitions with ext4, gpt6 and gpt3.
But, I’m a bit lost here. I am not able to detect what is the correct one, as well as I don’t know why the same results were achieved (regarding the suggested article).
Sorry for bothering you. But I would love to count with your help one more time, if possible.
Try this to see what’s in each partition (don’t forget the backslash at the end) and find the /boot folder:
ls (proc)\
ls (hd0)\
ls (hd0,gpt1)\
ls (hd1)\
ls (hd1,gpt1)\
And so on, until (hd1,gpt8). If /boot folder appears in (hd1), then try:
ls (hd1)\boot
To see what’s in the folder and the files you have to load before the “boot” command. Copy here the results and we’ll see what else can be done.
It seems to me you have an EFI system and I know little about this configuration. Here you have more info to continue looking for information, tells us what you discover and let’s hope somebody else can help to find a solution:
No need to apologize, I’m glad to help in any way I can.
Thank you very much. Yeah, I have EFI here. I’ll read the suggested article and look for more informations, trying to solve this little issue.
This amazing community is really great!
Since I left Kubuntu I can only thank all the Manjaro community and team. Not only we have a great distro, we also have a wonderful support, with very kind and helpful people, like you.
Moreover, I am really very well impressed by how Manjaro fantastically detected all my hardware with minimum efforts from my part. Even the Nvidia drivers (which caused several problems on Kubuntu including a broken system) were perfectly and automatically installed, and I am already running some games, including severam with Valve’s Proton.
Sorry for asking this (I am a bit afraid now since the entire system is working and there’s only that “little annoyance” when everything is booting).
Doing the above procedure is there some risk the system becomes unbootable or something similar?
P.S.: I also noticedt there’s a /boot/efi partition (sda1). May this be the correct one?