I put my m.2 drive from my lenovo p51 into my new alienware m18 r1 rtx 4080 and my screen in totally black, It seems like I can’t jump into a tty but I can chroot into the install with a usb manjaro install, my old card was an nvidia quadro, I’m not sure if the problem is an nvidia or kernel problem or something else
Are you getting a GRUB screen and then just black? If so, you could try editing the GRUB commandline from there and removing “quiet” and “splash”; this is only effective for that boot but if it gives you a desktop, you can edit /etc/default/grub to make the change persistent.
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I am just getting a black screen after the alien logo, no splash screen or grub, I tried to hold shift but I still didn’t see grub
I guess you meant shift 
but if you can chroot, try editing the GRUB config file from there?
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Just to be sure, does your bios identify the new drive correctly?
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yes thank you I did, for some reason it glitched out lol, I just removed quiet and splash but it’s still a black screen
yes it does, It can see the drive and I can chroot into it and see it in file manager on my usb manjaro installer
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Hello Penguin,
You using a old Linux install from a total differend and old system and want to use it now on your total differend and new system?
I think the best way should be a clean install and only overwrite your Home profile after a fresh install, if you don’t want to reconfig your system.
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Well a backup is always required of course. But that would be made normally anyways, when someone want to go for a clean install.
@penguinlover1
In the other Topic i think you asked me how to do it:
I just duplicated my Homepartition with Timeshift which need to setup in Timeshift manually (of course you can do it with another program also).
Installed Manjaro (get sure your new profile has the exact same name, that included sensitive upper/lowercase), installed all updates and also installed all applications and Desktop Layouts (if you use customisation layouts) that was included in your old Homeprofile.
I also executed all UI applications just one time for access reason (because i was running into bugs when they not executed before you overwrite the home profile), then i created a Timeshift snapshot again just in case if i make a mistake with the new install (optional).
Then i booted in live environment and overwritten my new homeprofile with the old homeprofile from my timeshift backup.
After a restart everything was running, with the old configs.