Hey all - I’m new to manjaro and installed a clean version with simple partitioning (GPT) so there is 8mb sda1 unformatted with the bios-grub flag enabled and the rest (sda2 ext4) is for /
It seems that when I run yay and it upgrades the system I can no longer boot on restart. Any ideas?
Alright I tried with a single partition and I also switchwd to uefi mode in the boot… Still no luck - it hangs at boot. I do notice that when I run Pacman -Syu it asks about upgrading the kernel… Should I just not upgrade the kernel? I’ll trying doing an upgrade of everything except the kernel and report back
So I realized that it is booting but just showing a black screen because the display manager isn’t stating up. I followed #2 from Welcome to the new Manjaro Forum and was able to get the display manager working using the command startx.
Any ideas how I can fix the display manager issue? I’m using gnome - thanks again for all the help guys
SOLUTION for me was to install the correct nvidia driver for the graphics card. So in conclusion it turns out that the system upgrade didn’t prevent the system from booting but rather the old display drivers were not compatible with the new kernel.
for your information
1st install on disk GPT was not EFI install , so calmares has created a bios_grub
you didn’t check in fact if you has really boot USB iso manjaro in UEFI only
I find this response condescending and unhelpful (unlike the helpful community that assisted me yesterday). The issue was not BIOS vs UEFI (I set up correctly for either boot). The issue was that when I updated the kernel the video driver became incompatible which is why the screen was black. My laptop can boot in either UEFI or BIOS (legacy) modes