After update and system clean, stuck in emergency mode with no keyboard input

[Fabby]

@prudx

[FAILED] Failed to mount /boot/efi.

You’ve hosed your UEFI system and Linux cannot make heads nor tails of your system any more. You’re in for a re-install!

@prudx

A reinstall is not ideal, would lose over a year of data

1. Boot the USB (that’ll boot with or without UEFI, ensure to set your computer to BIOS mode beforehand) and backup copy all of your data onto an external drive
2. Please read this:

[HowTo] make a crash-proof backup in Manjaro for your entire system

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ If you follow the tutorial completely, you will be able to create a backup of your entire system not only limited to Manjaro, but also including Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, … and whatever else you might have installed on your system! Even if you replace your HDD by an SSD, your HDD crashes, your entire system gets stolen, … you can always restore a Cold System backup to an identical system (You cannot restore E.G. a Dell XPS onto a Dell PowerEdge and then expect that to…

and start making backups from this point forward!