Accidently Deleted Manjaro Kernel

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Hi @tester7878, and welcome!

I’d recommend you boot a live environment, enter a chroot environment from there and reinstall the kernel.

How to chroot

  1. Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with a still supported LTS kernel.

  2. Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive.

  3. When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment.

  4. Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot environment:

manjaro-chroot -a
  1. If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.

When done, you should now be in the chroot environment.

But, be careful, as you’re now in an actual root environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart.

For more:

Once there you’d have to install a new kernel. I recommend 6.6 as I use that, it’s LTS, and it works well. To install it, from within the chroot environment, run:

sudo mhwd-kernel --install linux66

if all goes well and there were no errors, exit the chroot environment:

exit

And reboot

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Note:

The chroot instructions will not work on a BTRFS filesystem. If you’ve got that, please see the following for chrooting instructions:

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